Serial | 185-5171 | |||||||||||||||
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First Flight | 11.3.1966 | |||||||||||||||
Model | P-3B Orion | |||||||||||||||
Status | Written-off | |||||||||||||||
Comments | w/o 20.4.2005 crashed & caught fire in the Lassen Mountains 14mi (22km) N of Chico, CA; the a/c had taken off from Chico, on a qualification check flight for pilots that would be scheduled to conduct fire-fighting operations during the upcoming fire season; It had just dropped 2,550 gallons of water over the mountainous terrain on a training drop when it lost control & crashed; | |||||||||||||||
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