Kiwi Aircraft Images: Lockheed P-3K Orion
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Description: Images and description of P-3s used by the Royal New Zealand Air Force.
Kiwi Aircraft Images: Lockheed P-3K Orion The Orion ASW aircraft is a development of the 1950's vintage L-188 Electra Airliner airframe. Five Electras were operated from New Zealand by TEAL between 1959 and 1972. Developed as a successor to the P-2V Neptune, the prototype Orion first flew on November 25, 1959. (An aerodynamic prototype built by modifying an Electra flew on August 19, 1958). The first P-3A Orion flew on April 15,1961. The aircraft has subsequently been built in a number of versions, (including license built by Kawasaki) and upgrades. The P-3C with a heavier wing structure appeared in 1968, with subsequent avionics/ weapons 'Upgrade'versions. The Canadian modified CP-140 Aurora utilising the Orion airframe flew in 1979. Orions have been supplied to a number of airforces outside the US, including Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, and Spain.
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