With the Super Guppy encroaching behind, 'Catbird' rests after its days operating for CINCNAVEUR Executive Transport Detachment, Sigonella (Sicily)

VP-31 'The Black Lightnings'. This was the West Coast P-3 training squadron. VP-31 was disestablished in November 1993. 150511 was built in 1963 as a P-3A and converted to a VP-3A in 1982. WFU at AMARC on 13 May 2003 and SOC on 08 Jul 2003. Noted in Jul 2007 on display at the Pima Air & Space Museum, Tucson AZ.

This P-3A was eventually converted to a VP-3A.

K25 slide scan. Built 1963, retired to AMARC 2003. Modified from a standard ASW aircraft to VP-3A in 1982 the Orion replaced a C-131 as Admiral's Bird at NAS Sigonella using CATBIRD as callsign. It could carry 12 passengers in modest comfort. Displayed at Pima Air Museum by 2007.

The aircraft was in service with the US Navy as 15051. Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number 2P0190 in May 2003. By 2007, it was relocated to Pima.

Its days of patrolling the oceans are over.

A P-3A Orion adapted for VIP duties, used by CinC AFSE.