{"id":57228,"date":"2024-09-27T20:53:44","date_gmt":"2024-09-27T18:53:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=57228"},"modified":"2025-09-27T00:12:54","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T22:12:54","slug":"the-interior-of-the-p-3-orion-cisne-31-a-spanish-plane-that-tracked-soviet-submarines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/09\/27\/the-interior-of-the-p-3-orion-cisne-31-a-spanish-plane-that-tracked-soviet-submarines\/","title":{"rendered":"The interior of the P-3 Orion 'Cisne 31', a Spanish plane that tracked Soviet submarines"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Lockheed P-3 Orion has been the best maritime patrol aircraft that Spain has ever had in the entire history of its military aviation.<\/p>\n

The rest of Cisne 31, a Spanish airplane that tracked Soviet submarines<\/a><\/rel>
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On December 16, 2022, the farewell ceremony for the last P-3 Orion of the Spanish Air Force, the P.3M-08 (22-31)<\/strong>, was held after 35 years of service in the Spanish Air Force, with which it flew a total of 11,000 hours. The first three Spanish P-3As (the P.3-1, P.3-2 and P.3-3) were delivered on July 25, 1973.<\/strong> These three aircraft had already logged many flight hours for the US Navy.<\/p>\n

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The P-3A Orion P.3A-01 (22-21) flying over Torrej\u00f3n Air Base at the Spanish Air Force 75th Anniversary Airshow, 15 October 2014 (Photo: Elentir<\/a>).<\/div>\n

In January of this year we reviewed the history of these aircraft here<\/a>, on the occasion of the publication of an interesting video by the Youtube channel Fly By Wire Aviation<\/a> (I recommend you subscribe if you like aeronautical topics) about the P.3A-01 (ex P.3-1), with radio callsign \"Cisne 31\", preserved in the Cuatro Vientos Air Museum<\/strong>, in Madrid.<\/p>\n

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The end of the last flight of the \"Cisne 31\" with its landing at the Cuatro Vientos Air Base on November 14, 2017 (Photo: Ej\u00e9rcito del Aire<\/a>).<\/div>\n

The \"Cisne 31\", like the other Spanish P-3 Orions, dedicated part of its missions to tracking Soviet submarines<\/strong> that sailed near Spanish waters during the Cold War years. Today, thanks again to the Fly By Wire Aviation<\/a> channel, we can see what the interior of that aircraft<\/strong> is like, in which its crews, made up of up to 14 people, worked for so many hours until the P.3A-01 was retired from service in 2017:<\/p>\n