United States Navy EP-3E Retired

The US Navy retired its last EP-3E Aries II signals intelligence aircraft in February 2025, Seapower reported. Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron One (VQ-1) marked the event with an informal ceremony at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island on 12 February, and the aircraft was flown away the next day. The last operational EP-3E mission had been flown in the US 5th Fleet area in October 2024. Twenty-six EP-3Es served from 1970; their mission passes to the P-8A Poseidon and the MQ-4C Triton, and VQ-1 was deactivated on 31 March 2025.