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Sad. When I was a little boy I ved in Scarborough right under the approach path to the Portland Jetport, and I’d watch Orions and Delta 727’s roaring over my house every day.

End of an era: Aircraft depart Brunswick Naval Air Station as Maine base readies for closing.

>Wrong. Its Naval Air Station Brunswick, you twits.

The P-3 Orions of the VP-26 squadron lumbered down an 8,000-foot runway before heading off to a six-month deployment in Central America. After that, they fly to their new home at Florida's Jacksonville Naval Air Station.

>P-3s do not lumber. With 18,000 HP you do not "lumber." And it's Naval Air Station Jacksonville, you morons.

The P-3 Orions, which went into operation in the 1960s, tracked Soviet submarines in the Atlantic Ocean during the Cold War. More recently, the planes have been used on drug interdiction missions and in support of operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.

>P-3s went into service tracking not just Soviet subs in the Atlantic but Soviet and Chinese subs in the Pacific, as well as infiltrator arms ships trying to sneak weapons to the Chinese Army and the Cong in Vietnam. Plus watching all world shipping for 40 years. Trust me.

I think I know what you’re talking about, but I can’t find any evidence that it existed other than as a naval base. I believe we had one comm NCO transfer there shortly before Loring AFB closed. IIRC, there was a back scatter radar site there.