On May 29, 2025, a South Korean Navy P-3 Orion patrol plane with four people on board crashed into a mountain in the ...

The Royal New Zealand Air Force's No. 5 Squadron set ... Initially a Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA), the P-3 Orion has evolved into a land-and-sea patroller, thanks to the Anti-surface Warfare ...

The search for the right airplane started in 1957, when the Navy issued specifications for a new long-range patrol bomber. What emerged was Lockheed’s P-3 Orion, a patrol airplane derived from ...

The New Zealand Defence Force on Tuesday said it would retire five P-3K2 Orion aircraft five months earlier than planned because of staff shortages, leaving it with few planes for search ...

(Norwegian Armed Forces) SANTIAGO, Chile — The Argentine government has finalized negotiations to buy four surplus P-3 Orion maritime ... using components made of new alloys more resistant ...

Crew: Nine A militarized version of the Boeing 737 commercial aircraft, the P-8A Poseidon is intended to replace the U.S. Navy’s ageing P-3 Orion fleet ... aperture radar, new electronic support ...

Designed in the late 1950s and introduced in the 1960s, the P-3 Orion is one of the oldest aircraft currently in service of the U.S. Navy. It has not only stood the test of time, more than half a ...