MISAWA NAVAL AIR FACILITY, Japan — An aging warrior started a new mission Monday: fostering good relations between the U.S. Navy and the Japanese people. The U.S. Navy moved an Orion P-3A aircraft to ...

MISAWA AIR BASE, Japan — A Navy airplane that could have been salvaged for parts and dispatched to a boneyard instead will become a hands-on outdoor educational display at Misawa Aviation and Science ...

Seven ex-US Navy Lockheed P-3A Orion air tankers have been returned to firefighting service in the USA after completion of a safety analysis and inspections. The remaining P-3 is expected to return to ...

How Lockheed’s P-3 kept the Cold War from turning hot. Robert Bernier A P-3C Orion assigned to VP-46 commands the ramp at Washington’s Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, in 2017. U.S. Navy/ Petty ...

The U.S. Forest Service reinstated contracts for five P-3A Orion airtankers last week, returning the Aero Union aircraft to firefighting operations. Another two P-3As could be back in the air this ...

On Jan. 30, VP-16 ceremoniously commemorated the completion of their transition from the P-3C Orion - and to make history as the first operational squadron to fly the P-8A Poseidon. The last time the ...

March 2 marked a historic day for the "Red Lancers" of Patrol Squadron (VP) 10 as they began the transition to their sixth aircraft, the P-8A Poseidon. Stationed at NAS Jacksonville, VP-10 started a ...

The Brazilian air force has regained a fixed-wing anti-submarine warfare capability after an operational gap of 15 years. The air force officially placed its first Lockheed P-3AM Orion into service on ...