{"id":100742,"date":"2020-06-09T14:48:22","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T18:48:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=100742"},"modified":"2020-06-09T14:48:22","modified_gmt":"2020-06-09T18:48:22","slug":"fair-winds-and-following-seas-to-the-navys-p-3c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=100742","title":{"rendered":"Fair winds and following seas to the Navy\u2019s P-3C"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nA P-3C Orion from the Golden Eagles of VP-9 flies by Mt. Fuji.<\/em><\/p>\n

End of an era, always bittersweet. From my first flight in one as a salty AW3 to my last as a civilian flying Project Specialist, a span of some 22 years and she always brought me home. Some flights were a bit of the white knuckle variety though, and we all knew people who didn’t make it back.
\nBut it’s also the start of a new era as well; I’ve done my part to make that happen too. The P-8A Poesidon is a great aircraft with capabilities I could have only wished for back in the Cold War days. The crews flying in her have a bright and challenging future ahead.<\/p>\n

MustangCryppie sends.<\/p>\n

Article by: Geoff Ziezulewicz<\/strong><\/p>\n

The U.S. Navy\u2019s P-3C Orion patrol aircraft fleet retired from active duty last month after nearly 60 years in service.<\/p>\n

With the replacement P-8 Poseidon now taking on the mission for the Navy\u2019s patrol squadrons, the Orion fleet are free to collect their shadow boxes and muse among themselves about how today\u2019s land-based, long-range, anti-submarine warfare patrol aircraft have it easier than they did back in the day.<\/p>\n

This long-planned transition away from the P-3C was completed in mid-May, when Patrol Squadron 40 at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Washington, turned in its last Orion, according to a Navy release.<\/p>\n

The last of the active-duty P-3Cs, aircraft 162776, was delivered to the Naval Aviation Museum in Pensacola, Florida, as well.<\/p>\n

While technically a sub hunter, the old workhorse flew missions during the Vietnam War, Operation Desert Storm, the campaign against the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, as well as countless other intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance operations over the decades.<\/p>\n

In March 2019, the \u201cFighting Marlins\u201d of Patrol Squadron 40 flew their P-3s from Whidbey and to Bahrain for the aircraft\u2019s last active-duty deployment.<\/p>\n

Squadrons began transitioning to the Poseidon in 2013.<\/p>\n

Despite VP-40 closing the door on the Orion\u2019s active-duty service, two Navy Reserve squadrons \u2014 NAS Jacksonville\u2019s Patrol Squadron 62 and Whidbey Island\u2019s Patrol Squadron 69 \u2014 will continue flying the plane.<\/p>\n

The last P-3C Orion is expected to be phased out in 2023.<\/p>\n

Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 30 out of Point Mugu, California, will also continue to fly the old airframe.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The entire article may be viewed here: Navy Times<\/a><\/p>\n

Thanks, MC.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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