Dates

Event

Constructed as a L-188.
Third prototype

To Lockheed Aircraft Corp, Palmdale, CA with new c/r N1883 {1}.

1958

Converted into an aerodynamic test aircraft with a dummy weapons bay and a dummy MAD-boom, contracting for patrol aircraft.

19 August 1958

First flight.
First flight with modifications.

October 1958

Converted to a YP3V-1.
New construction number, 5015, assigned to the airframe.

18 March 1959

Civil registration, N1883 {1}, cancelled.

25 November 1959

First flight.
First Flight as YP3V-1.

November 1959

Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 148276.

November 1959

Transferred to Naval Air Test Center, Patuxent River, MD.

6 July 1962

Redesignated as YP-3A.

31 December 1965

Taken on Strength/Charge with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration with s/n 927.

Redesignated as NP-3A.

25 August 1969

To National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Houston, TX with new c/r N927NA.

From February 1978 to 1993

To National Aeronautics and Space Administration, NAS Wallops Island, VA with new c/r N428NA (NP-3A, 148276).
Operated with markings: NASA 428

13 May 1992

Photographer: Peter Nicholson
Notes: NASAs NP-3A Orion seen at MacDill AFB, Florida in May 1992

From September 1993 to 1995

Assigned to National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Wallops Island VA for storage.

21 September 1993

To National Museum of Naval Aviation, Pensacola, FL keeping c/r N428NA.

1996

Ferry flight. Delivered to National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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11 September 2003

Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

6 April 2006

Civil registration, N428NA, cancelled.

27 March 2011

Photographer: Terry Fletcher
Notes: at NAS Pensacola

27 March 2011

Photographer: Terry Fletcher
Notes: National Museum of Naval Aviation, Pensacola

27 March 2011

Photographer: Terry Fletcher
Notes: National Museum of Naval Aviation, Pensacola

8 October 2012

Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

2016

Scrapped.