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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-188 / P-3 / CP-140
    Latest Model:P-3SPA Orion
    Last Military Serial:160290 USN
    Construction Number:5653
    Compressed ID:Lockheed P-3SPA sn 160290 USN cn 56...
    Latest Owner or Location:309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG)

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a P-3C-180-LO by Lockheed at Burbank, California, USA.

    26 August 1977

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 160290.

    26 August 1977

    Transferred to Naval Air Test Center (NATC), Anti-Submarine Warfare Training Center, NAS Patuxent River, MD.

    18 August 1978

    Transferred to Naval Air Development Center, Warminster, PA.

    Converted to a P-3C Update III.
    Converted at Lockheed Martin.

    1 May 1984

    Transferred to Naval Air Development Center, Warminster, PA.

    1 August 1984

    Transferred to NATC, Force Warfare Aircraft Test Squadron, NAS Patuxent River, MD.
    Operated with markings: 290

    January 1992

    Transferred to Naval Air Warfare Center-Aircraft Division, NAS Patuxent River, MD.

    April 1996

    Transferred to Naval Force Aircraft Test Squadron, NAS Patuxent River, MD.
    Operated with markings: FORCE-290
    Test range test bed aircraft.

    9 March 2000


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Cedar Rapids, IA, Rockwell-Collins

    1 May 2002

    Transferred to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 20 (VX-20), NAS Patuxent River, MD.
    Operated with markings: 290

    September 2002

    Transferred to VX-1, NAS Patuxent River, MD.
    Operated with markings: JA-04

    May 2003

    Transferred to VX-20, NAS Patuxent River, MD.
    Operated with markings: 290

    December 2010

    Converted to a P-3SPA.

    December 2010

    Transferred to Special Projects Patrol Squadron 1 (VPU-1), NAS Brunswick, ME.

    April 2012

    Transferred to VPU-2, Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay, HI.

    11 June 2020

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG).
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    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
     Glenn Chatfield
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