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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-188 / P-3 / CP-140
    Latest Model:UP-3A Orion
    Last Military Serial:150527 USN
    Construction Number:5053
    Compressed ID:Lockheed UP-3A sn 150527 USN cn 505...
    Latest Owner or Location:AMARG, Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, Arizona

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    Event

    Constructed as a P-3A-30-LO by Lockheed at Burbank, California, USA.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 150527.

    Converted to an UP-3A.

    Transferred to VXN-8, NAS Patuxent River, MD.

    Markings Applied: TASMANIAN DEVIL, WORLD TRAVELLER
    Image of Tasmanian Devil on nose.

    18 April 1990

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number 2P0041.

    October 2000


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At AMARC, AZ

    Placed on display with Celebrity Row, Davis-Monthan AFB (North Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    By 2017

    In the inventory of AMARG, Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, AZ.
    Row 4.
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    15 March 2017


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: taken from outside the fence


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    Credits
    Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...

    Internet Sources
    MASDC II, AMARC, Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, 1982-1987 by Fryer and Swann
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher

    Individual Contributors
    Robert Nichols
    FRANCOIS OLIVIER

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