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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-188 / P-3 / CP-140
    Latest Model:EP-3E Aries II
    Last Military Serial:156514 USN
    Construction Number:5508
    Compressed ID:Lockheed EP-3E sn 156514 USN cn 550...
    Latest Owner or Location:Celebrity Row, Davis-Monthan AFB (North Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a P-3C-110-LO by Lockheed at Burbank, California, USA.

    Circa December 1970

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 156514.

    11 December 1970

    To VP-47.
    Markings added: RD-4

    1 September 1974

    Transferred to VP-31.
    Operated with markings: RP-9

    Circa 1977


    Photographer: SMSGT. Dana Nichols (USAF ret.) via Fargo Air Museum
    Notes: Photographed at Elmendorf AFB, AK.

    23 September 1983

    Transferred to VP-19.
    Operated with markings: PE-14

    13 June 1984

    Transferred to VP-31.
    Operated with markings: RP-2

    October 1992

    Converted to an EP-3E.

    October 1996

    Transferred to VQ-1.
    Operated with markings: PR-33

    December 1999

    SSIP Mod.

    By February 2011

    Markings Applied: PR-514

    26 April 2016

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG).

    July 2022

    Placed on display with Celebrity Row, Davis-Monthan AFB (North Side), Tucson, AZ.
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