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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.
West Coast Center Orion Patrol Squadron: Lockheed P-3 Orion: 1963, January −1993: USN: Commander Patrol Wing TEN (COMPATWING 10) West Coast Center Orion Patrol Squadron: Lockheed P-3 Orion: 1963, January −1993: USN: Naval Air Reserve, Commander Reserve Patrol Wing Pacific (COMRESPATWINGPAC) West Coast Center Orion Patrol Squadron: Lockheed ...
The Hainan Island incident was a ten-day international incident between the United States and the People's Republic of China (PRC) that resulted from a mid-air collision between a United States Navy EP-3E ARIES II signals intelligence aircraft and a Chinese Air Force J-8 interceptor on April 1, 2001.
The Lockheed EP-3 is an electronic signals reconnaissance variant of the P-3 Orion, ... The EP-3E generally has a crew of 24, including linguists, cryptographers and ...
The Lockheed WP-3D Orion is a highly modified P-3 Orion used by the Aircraft Operations Center division of the National Oceanic ... Crew: Up to 22 (2 pilots, flight ...
Lieutenant Commander Kay Hire, a Naval Flight Officer who previously flew the RP-3A and RP-3D [8] variants of the P-3 Orion in Oceanographic Development Squadron EIGHT (VXN-8) at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland and was an instructor navigator in the USAF T-43A with the Naval Air Training Unit (NAVAIRTU) embedded with the 323rd Flying Training Wing ...
The last operational P-3 Orion aircraft flew into Brunswick Landing on Friday to mark the 10-year anniversary of the closing of the Brunswick Naval Air Station.
4 January 1963: VP-31 Detachment Alpha was established at Naval Air Station Moffett Field Its primary mission was to train pilots and aircrewmen for the advanced ASW aircraft, the P-3 Orion. The squadron's P-3 aircraft averaged 8,600 flying hours a year in training missions.