P-3 or CP-140?

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Re: P-3 or CP-140?

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CH124 Driver wrote: Wed Jun 19, 2019 8:36 pm CT156 Harvard II was entered as TEX2...
This made me chuckle. Shouldn't it be PC9? Just kidding...just kidding....
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linecrew wrote: Thu Jun 20, 2019 5:37 am
CH124 Driver wrote: Wed Jun 19, 2019 8:36 pm CT156 Harvard II was entered as TEX2...
This made me chuckle. Shouldn't it be PC9? Just kidding...just kidding....
If it were a PC9, yes. But it’s not. They’re different with different designators.

https://www.icao.int/publications/DOC86 ... earch.aspx
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CH124 Driver wrote: Thu Jun 20, 2019 2:01 pm
linecrew wrote: Thu Jun 20, 2019 5:37 am
CH124 Driver wrote: Wed Jun 19, 2019 8:36 pm CT156 Harvard II was entered as TEX2...
This made me chuckle. Shouldn't it be PC9? Just kidding...just kidding....
If it were a PC9, yes. But it’s not. They’re different with different designators.

https://www.icao.int/publications/DOC86 ... earch.aspx
True in a sense but it' not always the case. An example is the Russian built Lisunov Li-2, a copy of the DC-3 where no parts are compatible due to the fact that they are all measured in metric, but shares the same ICAO designator of DC-3. The Beech Mk. II (aka Texan II/Harvard II) is essentially a Pilatus PC-9 but has it's own designator.
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Re: P-3 or CP-140?

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I used to be a tech on the aurora and I have flown many time with the aircraft in the us, Canada and internationally. I can’t remember them using the p3 designator in Canada but I heard them use it many times outside Canada. They would use it with their CANFORCE callsign.

Basically, the first aurora was a p3 airframe with the s2 Vikings avionics suite but with the latest bloc II and III avionics, it’s a totally different animal today that has nothing to do with the original.
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