Four of the turboprops will be trucked from Nova Scotia to an aircraft recycling facility in Grenville, Quebec.
The Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) will scrap four of its retired CP-140 Aurora maritime patrol aircraft.
The four-engined turboprops, which are based on the Lockheed Martin P-3 Orion anti-submarine warfare platform, were retired from service after being declared surplus between 2023 and 2025.
The CP-140s are currently in storage at 14 Wing Greenwood in the Atlantic province of Nova Scotia. They will be partially dismantled and trucked to an aircraft retirement facility in Grenville, Quebec, for disposal. That journey began on 7 July.
“As they would require significant work and resources to return to flyable status, the decision was made to dismantle and transport them by road to undergo planned disposal work,” the Department of National Defence says.
The four Auroras now headed to the scrapyard first entered service in 1980.
Ten CP-140 aircraft remain in service with the RCAF, with the fleet split between 14 Wing in Nova Scotia and 19 Wing in Comox, British Columbia, on Canada’s Pacific coast.
Canada is in the process of fielding up to 16 Boeing P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft, which the RCAF has designated the CP-8A.
Assembly of the first 737 fuselage for the Canadian P-8 programme began in February 2026 at Boeing’s aerostructures facility in Wichita, Kansas, formerly operated by Spirit AeroSystems. Delivery of the first mission-ready CP-8A is expected in 2027.
The RCAF is also acquiring a fleet of General Atomics Aeronautical Systems MQ-9B long-range patrol UAVs that will team with the P-8 fleet to monitor Canada’s vast coastlines, including Arctic territory extending as high as the North Pole.
The remaining CP-140/P-3 fleet will be gradually retired, Ottawa says, as the new CP-8A jets are delivered.
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