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End of an era:
Royal Netherlands Navy
took leave of the P-3 Orion
After 25 years of outstanding service
P-3C CUP 312 during a very low pass over RNLNAS Valkenburg’s empty flightline.
It was the RNLN’s last P-3 movement from Valkenburg.
Air station personnel gathered together to wave goodbye to their former
workhorse (photo: Jaap Dubbeldam, 22 June 2006)
The P-3 Orion Research Group is a cooperation
of Jaap Dubbeldam and Marco P.J. Borst. We both used to be
"aircraftspotters" at the former RNLNAS Valkenburg in The
Netherlands. Jaap's P-3 archives go back to the early seventies. Marco started
to collect P-3 information in 1981 when the Royal Netherlands Navy received its
first P-3C Orions. We started to cooperate as the "P-3 Orion Research
Group" in January 1990 and today we consider ourselves as the world's
leading experts on the Lockheed Martin P-3 Orion.
Since March 1990, we have published
an "Orion News" section in the two-monthly magazine
"Centerline" of the "Valkenburg Aircraft Spotters
Association". In this news section
we publish details on aircraft transfers to other squadrons and general news
items on P-3 Orions around the world. We
are also contributors to other magazines like “Scramble”.
Our first major project was the
compilation of a booklet on the P-3 Orion which was published in February 1996.
Marco P.J. Borst has also written numerous articles concerning P-3 Orion
squadrons and their operations for international magazines like the former
"Airborne LOG" (published by Lockheed Martin), "Maritime Patrol
Aviation" (published by VP International), and "Air
International".
The P-3 Orion Research Group
(PORG) has published its second "P-3 Orion" booklet - which is an
all-English version this time - in March 2001. This booklet features the same
main chapters as the 1996 version (see our P-3 Orion Books section) but each chapter has
been brought up-to-date. More
information on this publication can be found in our P-3 Orion books section.
play
a video of a RNoAF P-3C mission out of Sigonella
TACCO Major Torbjørn Haugen asks the crew of a vessel what
its
homeport is, while the P-3C is flying overhead
German Navy P-3C CUP photo
page: click on the photo above.
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