Pima museum gets Hainan incident US Navy EP-3 Aries II

The US Navy Lockheed EP-3E Aries II that suffered serious damage in a mid-air collision with a Chinese People’s Liberation Army Naval Air Force Shenyang J-8 II fighter over the South China Sea on 1 April 2001 was towed from the vast storage yard at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base to the Pima Air and Space Museum on 22 October.Based on the P-3 Orion airframe, the EP-3E was packed with cutting-edge technology for intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions. Operating from Kadena