Navy’s P-3C Orion on final deployment ahead of retirement
April 27, 2019 Cheryl Hinneburg
After more than a half a century since its first flight, the Navy is in the process of retiring the P-3C Orion.
During the next six months, the remaining P-3C Orions will complete their final overseas deployment on bases in Japan and Bahrain after shipping out in late March from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island with Patrol Squadron Four Zero (VP-40), The Drive reported.
The Orions will then retire and be replaced with the new P-8A Poseidon. The NAS Jacksonville’s Patrol Squadron 62 and Whidbey Island’s Patrol Squadron 69 will fly the Orions exclusively after that until its final phase out in 2023, a process that began in 2013.
https://americanmilitarynews.com/2019/04/navys-p-3c-orion-on-final-deployment-ahead-of-retirement/
