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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-188 / P-3 / CP-140
    Latest Model:P-3B-100-LO Orion
    Last Military Serial:154582 USN
    Construction Number:185-5263
    Compressed ID:Lockheed P-3B-100-LO sn 154582 USN...
    Latest Owner or Location:309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC)

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a P-3B-100-LO by Lockheed at Burbank, California, USA.

    August 1968

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 154582.

    5 August 1968

    To VP-40.
    Markings added: QE-6

    Markings Applied: QE-8

    Markings Applied: QE-11

    31 December 1974

    Transferred to VP-6.
    Operated with markings: PC-7

    After 1974


    Photographer: SMSGT. Dana Nichols (USAF ret.) via Fargo Air Museum
    Notes: Photo taken at Elmendorf AFB, Alaska.

    Markings Applied: PC-2

    26 September 1984

    Transferred to VP-31.
    Operated with markings: RP-20

    21 March 1986

    Transferred to VP-6.
    Operated with markings: PC-3/3

    3 January 1987

    Involved in an incident.
    Emergency landing at NAS Barbers Point after losing No. 1 engine in flight.

    July 1991

    Transferred to VP-64.
    Operated with markings: LU-02

    17 November 1993

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number 2P106.

    3 January 2003

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Internet Sources
     P-3 Orion Research Group by Joe Baugher
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Max Sabin
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