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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-26 / P2V / P-2 Neptune
    Latest Model:Firestar
    Last Military Serial:145920 USN
    Construction Number:7190
    Last Civil Registration:N701AU
    Compressed ID:Aero Union Firestar sn 145920 USN c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Bravo Airlines Inc, Miami, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a P2V-7.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 145920.

    Redesignated as SP-2H.

    By 23 October 1962

    Transferred to VP-56.

    23 October 1962

    As VP-56 Pollysboy 11, took first photos of Soviet merchant ship with 8 Missiles leaving Cuba during Cuban Missile Crisis.

    16 January 1974

    Transferred to MASDC.

    3 April 1986

    To Aero Union Corp, Chico, CA with new c/r N920AU {1}.

    To Aero Union Corporation, Chico Municipal Airport, Chico, CA.
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    20 June 1986

    To Aero Union Corporation, Chico, CA with new c/r N701AU.

    From September 1986 to By 2007

    Assigned civil registration: N701AU

    Operated as fire service #01.

    25 September 1987

    Certificate of airworthiness for N701AU (P2V-7, 145920) issued.

    1988

    Converted to a Firestar by Aero Union.
    This was the prototype Firestar tanker convervsion.

    By July 1988


    Photographer: Unknown

    October 1990


    Photographer: Jacqueline Fischer
    Notes: Chico, CA

    11 October 2007

    To Bravo Airlines Inc, Miami, FL keeping c/r N701AU.

    18 January 2010

    Scrapped.

    23 May 2013

    Civil registration, N701AU, cancelled.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Mike Henniger
    Paul Stiller
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