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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-188 / P-3 / CP-140
    Latest Model:P-3A-45-LO Orion
    Last Military Serial:151387 USN
    Construction Number:5100
    Last Civil Registration:N922AU
    Latest Owner or Location:Buffalo Airways USA Inc, Hawthorne, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a P-3A-45-LO by Lockheed at Burbank, California, USA.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 151387.

    Transferred to VP-94, NAS New Orleans, LA.

    30 October 1984

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 2P0017.

    To US Forestry Service with new c/r N181AU.

    Operated by Aero Union Corporation, Chico Municipal Airport, Chico, CA.
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    12 October 1989

    To Aero Union Corporation, McClellan, CA with new c/r N922AU.

    1992

    Operated as fire service #22.
    Converted to a fire tanker at Chico, CA.

    October 1997


    Photographer: Jacqueline Fischer
    Notes: Santa Barbara, CA

    14 September 2009


    Photographer: David Lednicer
    Notes: Departing Reno-Stead for its temporary base during race week at Carson City.

    4 November 2010

    To Aero Union Corporation, McClellan, CA keeping c/r N922AU.

    Based at McClellan AFB (formerly), Sacramento, CA.
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    11 February 2011

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR922AU (P-3A, 151387) issued.

    20 April 2011

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR922AU (P-3A, 151387) issued.

    By 19 September 2011

    Operated as fire service #22 with markings: AERO UNION

    19 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the former McClellan AFB.

    28 February 2013

    To VRB Corp, Detroit, MI keeping c/r N922AU.

    31 August 2013


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the former McClellan AFB, Sacramento, CA.

    7 November 2013

    To United Aeronautical Corp, North Hollywood, CA keeping c/r N922AU.

    8 May 2014

    To unknown owner with c/r N922AU.
    Registration pending to a new owner in Starke, FL.

    17 June 2014

    To Buffalo Airways USA Inc, Starke, FL keeping c/r N922AU.

    In the inventory of Buffalo Airways, Hay River, NT.
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    On behalf of the owner stored with/at Keystone Airpark, Keystone Heights, FL.
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    15 May 2017

    To Buffalo Airways USA Inc, Hawthorne, FL keeping c/r N922AU.

    3 October 2019

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR922AU (P-3A, 151387) issued.

    16 April 2020


    Photographer: Tom Vance
    Notes: RDD - refurbished Tanker 22 ( N922AU) on a stop and go at Redding in fresh paint and tires. This was on the ground 6 minutes before departing back to McLLellan/SAC,

    25 October 2020


    Photographer: Tom Vance
    Notes: at RDD Redding CA Airstrike Tanker 22 lifting for the Lightning Complex fire west of Red Bluff CA which in 2020 is the largest fire by area in California History.

    31 March 2023


    Photographer: Nate Wilburn
    Notes: Great Falls International Airport, Montana.
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Ruud Leeuw.com by Ruud Leeuw
    The AMARC Experience
    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee amp; Wood
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Mike Henniger
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