Former Australian P-3B A9-299 P-3 AEW&C N145CS with US Customs Service, which was incorporated in the newly formed Department of Homeland Security in 2003.

Being towed through the crowd. Allocated US Navy serial 155299 before delivery to the RAAF as P-3B A9-299 in 1968. To Lockheed as N91LC in 1983 and converted to the prototype AEW&C Orion. To the US Customs service in 1988. Reregistered as N145LC in 1989. To the Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, AZ in 2023.

A relatively recent arrival at the photo date and parked in the maintenance area. P-3B BuNo 155299 went to the Royal Australian Air Force in May 1968 as A9-299. Back to the US as N91LC with Lockheed in July 1983, to become the AEW&C Orion prototype. Present as such at the Paris Air Show in 1985. Reregistered N145CS and to the US Custums Service in April 1989, until decommissioning by the end of 2023.

Taxi out on engine #2 and #3

This Airborne Early Warning and Control variant of the P-3 was nicknamed Sentinel. Eight P-3Bs were converted into AEW&C aircraft, but although the Orion is globally succesful, this variant was never exported. The P-3 AEWs are used by US Customs and Border Protection's Air and Marine Operations for drug interdiction and homeland security missions. This N91LC (BuNo 155299) became N145CS with the CBP.

This Airborne Early Warning and Control variant of the P-3 was nicknamed Sentinel. Eight P-3Bs were converted into AEW&C aircraft, but although the Orion is globally succesful, this variant was never exported. The P-3 AEWs are used by US Customs and Border Protection's Air and Marine Operations for drug interdiction and homeland security missions. This N91LC (BuNo 155299) became N145CS with the CBP.

Ex RAAF A9-299. P-3B with CBP departs in the afternoon off runway 32 as TROY077. Has US Customs and Border Protection titles and large US Department of Homeland Security badge on the tail. Also has "Air and Marine Operations" titles on the rear fuselage.