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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-26 / P2V / P-2 Neptune
    Latest Model:SP-2H Neptune
    Last Military Serial:145915 USN
    Construction Number:7180
    Last Civil Registration:N45309
    Compressed ID:Lockheed SP-2H sn 145915 USN cn 718...
    Latest Owner or Location:Mid-Atlantic Air Museum, Reading, Pennsylvania

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a SP-2H.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 145915.

    1975

    Transferred to U. S. Navy Reserve, Patrol Squadron VP67, Memphis Tennessee.

    To unknown owner with c/r N6280J.

    18 November 1983

    To Mid Atlantic Air Museum, Reading, PA with new c/r N45309.

    Based at Mid-Atlantic Air Museum, Reading, PA.
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    Markings Applied: PL/9

    4 May 1984

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX45309 (SP-2H, 7180) issued.

    23 July 1995


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Mid-Atlantic Aviation Museum at Reading, Pennsylvania.

    1 January 2004

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX45309 (SP-2H, 7180) issued.

    6 June 2014


    Photographer: Daniel L. Berek
    Notes: Displayed at the Mid Atlantic Air Museum
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
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     Terry Fletcher
    Steven Fritz
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