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SQNLDR Maz Jovanovich and the “best job in the world”

Every now and then, an aircraft design comes along that outlasts the working careers of not only its first generation of aircrews and maintainers, but those of their children and even their grandchildren.

One such long-lived aviation success-story is the Lockheed P-3 Orion. Developed from the much-less successful Electra airliner, more than 750 P-3s in multiple variants were built, and it has been the foremost maritime surveillance aircraft used by the US and allied air forces and navies since the early 1960s.