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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-188 / P-3 / CP-140
    Latest Model:P-3C-195-LO Orion
    Last Military Serial:161330 USN
    Construction Number:5727
    Last Civil Registration:N44RF
    Compressed ID:Lockheed P-3C-195-LO sn 161330 USN...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), MacDill AFB, Tampa, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a P-3C-195-LO by Lockheed at Burbank, California, USA.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 161330.

    May 1983

    Transferred to VP-11, NAS Brunswick, ME.
    Operated with markings: 8, 8, LE

    28 May 1983


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: P-3C Orion of Patrol Squadron VP-11 on static display at the 1983 RAF Mildenhall Air Fete.

    28 May 1983


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Mildenhall Air Fete 83

    14 April 2005

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number 2P0233.

    From 27 July 2005 to 3 October 2006

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    24 May 2006

    To United States Department of Commerce, MacDill AFB, FL with new c/r N44RF.

    Based at National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), MacDill AFB, Tampa, FL.
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    June 2012

    Grounded at Tampa, FL.

    2 August 2020

    Civil registration, N44RF, cancelled.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    The AMARC Experience
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Robert Nichols
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