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This is a list of active United States Navy aircraft squadrons. ... P-3 C-130 AV-8B TAV-8B T-39 MH-60S AH-1Z UH-1Y and other variants Commander, Naval Test Wing Pacific
Patrol Squadron: Lockheed P-3 Orion: 1963, January −1993: USN: VP-46 "Grey Knights" Patrol Squadron: Lockheed P-3 Orion: 1963, January −1993: USN: VP-47 "The Golden Swordsmen" Patrol Squadron: Lockheed P-3 Orion: 1963, May −1991: USN: VP-48 "The Boomerangers" Patrol Squadron: Lockheed P-3 Orion: 1963, January −1993: USN: VP-50 "Blue ...
The Lockheed P-3 Orion is a four-engined, turboprop anti-submarine and maritime surveillance aircraft developed for the United States Navy and introduced in the 1960s. Lockheed based it on the L-188 Electra commercial airliner; it is easily distinguished from the Electra by its distinctive tail stinger or "MAD" boom, used for the magnetic anomaly detection (MAD) of submarines.
NAS Jacksonville is home to Patrol Squadron THIRTY (VP-30), the Navy's largest aviation squadron and the only P-3 Orion and P-8 Poseidon Fleet Replacement Squadron that prepares pilots, air crew and maintenance personnel for operational assignments in the P-8A, P-3C, and EP-3E Aries in the U.S. Navy, and P-3B, P-3C and similar variants in ...
The P-3-AEWs are used by U.S. Customs and Border Protection's Air and Marine Operations for drug interdiction and homeland security missions. "P-3-LRT" (Long Range Tracker), previously known as "Slicks", also operated by CBP, are modified P-3 aircraft with an optical sensor turret in the nose and tracking radar which often work with the AEW ships.
Patrol Squadron 91 (VP-91) was a patrol squadron of the U.S. Naval Reserve. It was the second squadron to bear the VP-91 designation, the first VP-91 was redesignated VPB-91 on 1 October 1944. The squadron was established on 1 November 1970 and deactivated 29 years later, on 31 March 1999.
VP-31, Patrol Squadron 31 was a maritime patrol squadron of the United States Navy. [1] It was established on 30 June 1960 to train replacement aircrew and maintenance personnel. It was disestablished on 1 November 1993.
Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 30 (AIRTEVRON THREE ZERO or VX-30), nicknamed The Bloodhounds) is a United States Navy air test and evaluation squadron based at Naval Air Station Point Mugu, California. Using the tail code BH, the squadron flies the E-2D Hawkeye, Lockheed P-3 Orion, Gulfstream NC-20G, and the Lockheed C-130 Hercules aircraft ...