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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-188 / P-3 / CP-140
    Latest Model:P-3C-140-LO Orion
    Last Military Serial:158564 USN
    Construction Number:5573
    Compressed ID:Lockheed P-3C-140-LO sn 158564 USN...
    Latest Owner or Location:309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG)

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a P-3C-140-LO by Lockheed at Burbank, California, USA.

    February 1972

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 158564.

    29 February 1972

    To VP-30.
    Markings added: LL-35

    After February 1975


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

    By 1975

    Transferred to VP-16.
    Operated with markings: LF-10

    18 July 1975

    Transferred to NADC.

    15 March 1976

    Transferred to NATC ASW.

    1 August 1976

    Transferred to VP-24.
    Operated with markings: LR-9

    Markings Applied: LR-5/5

    Markings Applied: LR-4

    P-3C-IIIR modification.

    July 1995

    Transferred to VP-10.
    Operated with markings: LD-564

    September 1995

    Transferred to VP-26.
    Operated with markings: LK-564

    November 1998

    Transferred to VP-8.

    March 1999

    Transferred to VP-26.
    Operated with markings: LK-564

    P-3C AIP modification.

    September 2000

    Transferred to VP-26.

    August 2001

    Transferred to VP-5.
    Operated with markings: 564

    August 2002

    Transferred to VP-26.
    Operated with markings: 564

    December 2002

    Transferred to VP-16.
    Operated with markings: 564

    2003

    Wings were replaced by those of 163005.

    January 2004

    Transferred to VP-26.
    Operated with markings: 564

    October 2009

    Transferred to VP-45.
    Operated with markings: LN-564

    2011

    P-3C AIP+ modification.

    January 2012

    Transferred to VP-5.
    Operated with markings: 564

    December 2012

    Transferred to VP-45.
    Operated with markings: 564

    June 2013

    Transferred to VP-26.
    Operated with markings: 564

    February 2016

    Transferred to VP-47.
    Operated with markings: RD-564

    September 2017

    Transferred to VP-62.
    Operated with markings: 564

    16 October 2019

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