Though the P-3 Orion is slowly but surely being replaced by the Boeing P-8 Poseidon for ASW work, the transition is far from complete. The older Orion — unlike other famous Cold War-era Navy warplanes ...

It was a P-3 crew, in fact, that found and photographed a Soviet freighter returning to Russia with canisters of missiles aboard, signifying the end of the crisis. Operation Market Time Two years ...

Looks like a Portuguese Maritime Patrol Aircraft operating out of Poland violated the airspace of Finland. A Portuguese P-3 Orion maritime patrol aircraft, belonging to the 601st Squadron violated the ...

<p><br><P> St. Mary's County is occasionally visited by hurricanes and their leftovers, but Jim McFadden has personally visited 563 storms aboard P-3 Orion airplanes.<P> "I don't fly a lot anymore.

The P-3 Orion Airborne Early Warning (AEW) aircraft operated by U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CPB) was one of the aircraft on display at the Joint Base Andrews Air & Space Expo 2019 that was ...

Maintaining and upgrading the U.S. Navy's P-3 Orion maritime surveillance fleet for service into the next decade are being funded from several recent Department of Defense contracts, via Navair at ...

Over 3,600 pounds of cocaine was seized in the Eastern Pacific, the U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Thursday. A CBP Air and Marine Operations (AMO) P-3 Orion Long Range Tracker crew assigned ...

Life-cycle sustainment and support for the P-3 Orion got off to a flying start with the delivery of the first set of new production P-3 wings to Lockheed Martin’s launch customer, the Royal Norwegian ...

WELLINGTON, Dec 13 (Reuters) - The New Zealand Defence Force on Tuesday said it would retire five P-3K2 Orion aircraft five months earlier than planned because of staff shortages, leaving it with few ...

Patrol Squadron (VP) 30 held a final graduation ceremony for the P-3C “Orion” Jan. 24, sending the last five VP P-3C student pilots to the Fleet. “Today is another momentous day in our community’s ...

How Lockheed’s P-3 kept the Cold War from turning hot. Robert Bernier A P-3C Orion assigned to VP-46 commands the ramp at Washington’s Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, in 2017. U.S. Navy/ Petty ...