MARITIME PATROL AIRCRAFT IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION

[Xracer]

Pakistan Fokker F.27-200 Maritime aircraft

Pakistan Breguet atlantic Maritime aircraft

Pakistan Navy Hawker 850 XP

 

[Xracer]

Pakistan Navy P-3C MPA and P-3B AEW models (equipped with Hawkeye 2000 AEW system)

 

[Roybot]

Indian Navy Dornier 228

 

[Roybot]

Indian Navy P-8I

 

[Varunastra]

INDIAN P8-I NEPTUNE

 

[Penguin]

Pakistan Fokker F.27-200 Maritime aircraft

That's a civilian. You mean:

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Pakistan Navy P-3C MPA and P-3B AEW models (equipped with Hawkeye 2000 AEW system)

AEW would look like so:

 

[Penguin]

INDIAN P8-I NEPTUNE

Neptune? Though it was called Poseidon.

Neptune IIRC is the name for Lockheed P-2 MPA, the P-3 predecessor.

 

[ghazi52]

Penguin, Thanks for the information.

 

[Varunastra]

Neptune? Though it was called Poseidon.

Neptune IIRC is the name for Lockheed P-2 MPA, the P-3 predecessor.

neptune is the name of the indian navy export variant!!!!
Boeing P-8 Poseidon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[untitled]

Neptune and Poisden both are god of sea. First is Roman second is Greek

 

[Penguin]

neptune is the name of the indian navy export variant!!!!
Boeing P-8 Poseidon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

On that page it says:

P-8I Neptune – Export variant for the Indian Navy.[47]

Footnote 47 =

47.^ PICTURE: India's first 737-based P-8I nears flight debut

This links to:
PICTURE: India's first 737-based P-8I nears flight debut

Nowhere in this story does the word 'Neptune' appear.


However, I did find references here:
P-8i: India’s Navy Picks Its Future High-End Maritime Patrol Aircraft
First P-8I for Indian Navy Set for Flight

But, BOEING does not refer to the P-8I as Neptune
Boeing India Home: P-8I
Boeing: P-8I Poseidon Home

Consider, if the manufacturers designation where NEPTUNE, it would probably be NEPTUNE II.
P-47 Thunderbolt <> A-10 Thunderbolt II
P-38 Lightning <> F-35 Lightning II


I suspect if P-8I is called Neptune at all, it is an IN name only...

 

[Nishan_101]

I think Saab-2000 MPA with weapons modification would sound much better than any other option.

 

[hassan1]

Pakistan Fokker F.27-200 Maritime aircraft



Pakistan BN-2T Maritime aircraft

 

[Penguin]

Pakistan Fokker F.27-200 Maritime aircraft

Interesting, we got pic's here showing this aircraft in PN and in MSA colors. Who owns it? Who operates it?

 

[Penguin]

Not the most perfect of images, scanned from a slide so not perhaps as sharp as I would have liked, but this exotic visitor to Norwich in the early 1990's was one that I had wanted to submit for some time. The aircraft first flew in December 1970 as PH-EXF, an F-27-200, before being delivered to Mount Cook Airlines as ZK-DCB. She flew in New Zealand until the end of 1991, when she was purchased by Aviation Capital Enterprises. A period of storage at Norwich followed before she was sold to the Pakistan Navy and rolled out with the serial "45" and the "registration" of AR-NZV. She still appears to be flying with the Pakistan military, (although now re-serialled FK72), with 27 Sqdn out of Sharea Faisal. Now over thirty five years old, lets hope that she continues to fly for many years to come.

JetPhotos.Net Photo » AR-NZV (CN: 10445) Pakistan - Navy Fokker F27-100 Friendship by Ken Withers
Aircraft AR-NZV, 1970 Fokker F-27-200 Friendship C/N 10445
Aircraft ZK-DCB, 1970 Fokker F-27-200 Friendship C/N 10445

Versus

Transferred to Pakistan Maritime Security Agency as AR-NYA - June 7, 1988
Transferred to Pakistan Army as 10254 - August 1992
Transferred to Pakistan Air Force as 10254 - August 2, 1994
Crashed into a mountains 70 km west of Khorat in foggy conditions - February 20, 2003Aircraft was on flight from Chakala Air Base, Rawapindi to Kohat Air Base
Air Force crew of 8 & 9 passengers killed
Killed in crash was Chief of Pakistan Air Force Air Chief Marshal Mushaf Ali Mir
Aircraft had flown approximately 52,000 hours with approximately 53,000 cycles

AR-NYA Fokker F.27 Friendship
VH-FNW Fokker F.27 Friendship