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There has been some confusion over the tail numbers of the Pakistan Navy P-3C Orion which were involved in the terrorist attack on PNS Mehran. I have now received confirmation about the two aircraft which had been destroyed: 84 (159883) 87 (159510) A third P-3C (81 / 164467) is believed to be heavil...

Our source had mixed up the Pakistani tail numbers but we have corrected that and we believe the below list is correct. Not two but three P-3C Orions were involved: 164467 - 81 HEAVILY DAMAGED 159883 - 84 DESTROYED 159511 - 86 DESTROYED Note: I edited this posting on May 27, 2011: Pakistani tail num...

After having seen the Lybian TV report about the Lynx I am wondering why the helicopter is on the beach pointing with its nose towards the sea. Wouldn't it be much more logical to land the thing with the nose pointing towards land? I mean, if you're flying into a country were you're not supposed to ...

Some new pics of the first P-3C that was painted in a retro scheme:

A few pics of 160770 during its arrival at Kaneohe Bay. I found these on the internet: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v729/marco_pj/diversen/arrKaneohe-1.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v729/marco_pj/diversen/arrKaneohe-2.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v729/marco_pj/diversen/arrKaneo...

And the third one rolled out today: 158206 in a scheme based on the early EP-3B Batrack paint scheme of the late sixties: white over glossy black.

According to NOS Headlines news: "The" Serbian Government plane has just landed at Rotterdam with Karadzic onboard, will be transferred to Scheveningen by helicopter. Heeft een van jullie zelf (of kennen jullie misschien iemand die) de aankomst van Karadzic op EHRD gezien? De Volkskrant is op zoek ...