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An Australian P-8A in November 2020. On 20 July 2007, the Australian Minister for Defence announced that the P-8A was the preferred aircraft to replace the Royal Australian Air Force fleet of Lockheed AP-3C Orions in conjunction with a then yet-to-be-selected unmanned aerial vehicle. The last AP-3C was scheduled to be retired in 2018, after ...
On November 20, 2023, a Boeing P-8A Poseidon operated by the United States Navy overran the runway and ditched into the Kāneʻohe Bay. All nine crew members evacuated the aircraft and swam to shore, uninjured. The aircraft damage is substantial and its airworthiness is still being evaluated to determine if it can be restored to operational ...
There were no casualties aboard the P-8A Poseidon aircraft, a twin-engine multimission patrol and reconnaissance jet with the airframe of a Boeing 737 passenger plane, according to Marine Corps ...
The P-8A crew of three pilots and six crew members assigned to the Whidbey Island, Wash.-based Patrol Squadron 4 "Skinny Dragon " was arriving at Marine Corps Base Hawaii around 2 p.m. Nov. 20 for ...
A few years ago, a string of unsafe Russian intercepts of US Navy P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft occurred over a few months. Those incidents involved Russia's Su-35 air ...
September 2001, after the U.S. terrorist attacks, VP-45 flew long-range reconnaissance missions along the U.S. Eastern Seaboard as part of Operation Enduring Freedom. [2] In June 2013 VP-45 completed their transition from the P-3C Orion to the P-8A Poseidon. Becoming the Navy's third operational P-8A squadron, following VP-16 and VP-5. [3]
Boeing (BA) is going to provide segregable effort support, unknown obsolescence, Class I change assessments and obsolescence monitoring to support P-8A aircraft.
The VP-26 Tridents are a United States Navy aircraft squadron based at Naval Air Station Jacksonville in Florida.The squadron flies Boeing P-8A patrol aircraft. It was established as Bombing Squadron 114 (VB-114) on 26 August 1943 and renamed Patrol Bombing Squadron 114 (VPB-114) on 1 October 1944; Patrol Squadron 114 (VP-114) on 15 May 1946; Heavy Patrol Squadron (Landplane) 6 (VP-HL-6) on 15 ...