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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-188 / P-3 / CP-140
    Latest Model:WP-3D Orion
    Last Military Serial:159875 USN
    Construction Number:5633
    Last Civil Registration:N43RF
    Latest Owner or Location:United States Department of Commerce, Lakeland, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a WP-3D.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 159875.

    26 February 1976

    To United States Department of Commerce, Macdill AFB, FL with new c/r N43RF.

    17 March 1976

    To US Department of Commerce, Miami, FL keeping c/r N43RF.

    Based at National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), MacDill AFB, Tampa, FL.
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    29 May 1992


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: N43RF with a white nose radom at Miami, FL

    May 2009


    Photographer: Tom Turner
    Notes: NOAA (United States Dept. of Commerce), Lockheed P-3 Orion, [Electra], Hurricane Chaser, N43RF, at FRG, Farmingdale, Republic, Long Island, New York, USA. May, 2009

    16 March 2010

    To United States Department of Commerce, Macdill AFB, FL keeping c/r N43RF.

    April 2021


    Photographer: G.R.Dennis Price
    Notes: At 2021 Sun N Fun at Lakeland, Florida

    9 September 2023

    To United States Department of Commerce, Lakeland, FL keeping c/r N43RF.
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
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    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
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