THE AVIATIONIST · DEFENSE
NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY’S VXS-1 RETIRES ITS LAST NP-3C ORION...
The VXS-1 “Warlocks” sent its NP-3C Orion, a dedicated research variant of the P-3C, to the ‘boneyard’ after three decades of service, retiring the last active-duty P-3 on the U.S.
SCOTT: Watch the airframe and the training pipeline, not the parade footage. Programs live or die in the schoolhouse.