Royal Canadian Air Force Lockheed CP-140 Aurora – Rockford Airfest 2014
Royal Canadian Air Force Lockheed CP-140 Aurora HD Close-Up Walkaround – Rockford Airfest 2014
Canada – Air Force / Canadian Forces Lockheed CP-140 Aurora (140111) (cn 258B-5741)
This aircraft is used for maritime patrol and is based on the Lockheed P-3 Orion which I have also seen many times before. The name for the aircraft comes from Aurora of mythology and also from the Aurora Borealis which shows itself often in Canada and the northern part of the North American continent.
It’s electronics is similar to the S-3 Viking in that it is used for anti-submarine warfare (ASW), but it also works maritime surveillance & counter-drug and search-and-rescue (SAR) missions. It is Canada’s only type of strategic intelligence Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) aircraft and is flown for Canadian Joint Operations Command, the RCMP and other Canadian federal government agencies.
More general info. about this plane can be found at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lockheed…
https://www.casr.ca/101-af-cp140-auror…
It has a crew of 20, is 116ft 10in long, has a wingspan of 99ft 8 in, has a heigt of 34ft 5in and weighs in at 61,362 lb. The power-plant is 4 x Allison T-56-A-14-LFE turboprop engines each having 4600 SHP. Max speed is 750 km/h, 405kts, 462 mph. Range is about 5,000 nm 5,737 mi and it’s service ceiling is 35,100ft.
Armament: Mk 46 V torpedoes, signal charges, smoke markers and illumination flares. It also caries air-to-surface rockets and can be fitted to carry various bombs.
Avionics include Sonobuoys, Radar, Wescam MX-20 Electro-Optical / Infrared (EO-IR) suite, Magnetic anomaly detector (MAD), Electronic Support Measures (ESM), Applanix DSS-439 Digital Mapping Camera (DSS), digital cameras, specialized binoculars, and numerous radios.
Note: This walkaround covers most of the airplane but I had to skip the left side for the most part as there was a long line of folks waiting for a cockpit tour.
This aircraft is pretty rare but has been photographed at a few locations worldwide including Edinburgh, South Australia YPED, Lossiemouth, Scotland, UK EGQS / LMO, Waddington, UK EGXW / WTN, Halifax Robert L Stanfield International Airport CYHZ / YHZ, Willemstad / Curacao – Hato Airport THCC / CUR, and Ottawa – MacDonald- Cartier International Airport CYOW / YOW
Rockford Airfest 2014
Chicago Rockford International Airport KRFD / RFD
Saturday June 7th, 2014
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