Can my external hard drive be viewed with airport extreme

looking to get an airport extreme to allow my mac air to use the wireless connection to link to it.  Is this doable?

Of course. The USB port of the AirPort Extreme allows you to connect a printer or external drive and share it with all the PCs and Macs connected to your AirPort Extreme.
When you connect the external drive to the AirPort Extreme, it will appear as a network drive. To access to it, open a Finder window and select the external drive in the Finder sidebar, under "Shared"

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    Once you've got your External HD... See here for Using TM...
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