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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-188 / P-3 / CP-140
    Latest Model:RP-3A Orion
    Last Military Serial:149670 USN
    Construction Number:5011
    Latest Owner or Location:AMARG, Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, Arizona

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    Event

    Constructed as a P-3A-10-LO by Lockheed at Burbank, California, USA.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 149670.

    Converted to a RP-3A.
    Oceanographic research aircraft.

    Transferred to Naval Research Laboratory, NAS Patuxent River, MD.
    Modified for electronic experiments at the Naval Research Laboratory.

    Markings Applied: NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY, NRL

    19 May 1994

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number 2P0147.

    19 May 1994

    In the inventory of AMARG, Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, AZ.
    Row 21.
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    30 April 2002


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: With special equipment at Row 03 at AMARC, Tucson, AZ, where it was from 1994 to 2017, then being scrapped.

    15 March 2017


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
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