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P-3 Orionrare
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About this type
The P-3 Orion is a Lockheed Electra airliner reborn as a submarine hunter, its tail stinger a magnetic anomaly detector for finding steel hulls beneath the waves. It patrolled every ocean of the Cold War.
The survivors work hard: NOAA's hurricane hunters fly P-3s into the eyewall on purpose, and firefighting conversions drop retardant over the American West. Navies still fly it too.
First flight: November 25, 1959 (YP3V prototype).
The tail boom is a magnetic anomaly detector.
NOAA P-3s fly into hurricanes for a living.
Engines
4x Allison T56
Range
~8,900 km
Crew
~11
Drawing: Catch Fleet Archive · Original artwork · Source
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Resolver aliasesLockheed P-3P-3P-3 Orion