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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-26 / P2V / P-2 Neptune
    Latest Model:SP-2H Neptune
    Last Military Serial:145906 USN
    Construction Number:726-7168
    Last Civil Registration:N443NA
    Compressed ID:Lockheed SP-2H sn 145906 USN cn 726...
    Latest Owner or Location:Neptune Aviation, Missoula International Airport, Missoula, Montana

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a P2V-7.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 145906.

    Redesignated as SP-2H.

    23 March 1989

    To David Brady, Cartersville GA with new c/r N8064A.

    From 16 May 1989 to By 1990

    To Hawkins Powers Aviation, Greybull, WY.

    16 May 1989

    To Hawkins and Powers Aviation Inc, Greybull, WY with new c/r N139HP.

    Based at Hawkins and Powers, South Bighorn County Airport, Greybull, WY.
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    From February 1990 to By 2005

    Assigned civil registration: N139HP

    6 June 1990

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR139HP (P2V-7, 145906) issued.

    Operated as fire service #139.

    1999


    Photographer: Reinhard Zinab
    Notes: At Visalia/CA Municipal Airport in 1999 - This former military maritime patrol aircraft was converted to an aerial tanker for firefighting work - the aircraft can carry 2,400 gal (9,084 l) - of retardant. Tanker 139 retained the long tail cone that used to house the MAD (Magnetic Anomaly Detection) sensors.

    September 2005

    To Pride Capital Group, Deerfield, IL keeping c/r N139HP.

    1 January 2006

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR139HP (P2V-7, 145906) issued.

    18 April 2006

    To Neptune Aviation Services Inc, Missoula, MT with new c/r N443NA.

    12 May 2006

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR443NA (P2V-7, 145906) issued.

    12 June 2006

    To Neptune Aviation Services Inc, Missoula, MT.

    Based at Neptune Aviation, Missoula International Airport, Missoula, MT.
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    Operated as fire service #43.

    18 October 2010


    Photographer: Copyright 2010 Doug F. Smith
    Notes: Neptune Aviation Services Tanker 43 is based in Missoula Montana.

    19 April 2011

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR443NA (P2V-7, 145906) issued.

    4 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed parked on the ramp at Fox Field, CA.

    4 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Operating out of Fox Field, CA.

    5 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    15 September 2014


    Photographer: Tom Vance
    Notes: KRDD: Tanker 43 on final for Runway 16 at Redding returning for more phos-check fighting the Boles Fire 2014 in Weed, CA USA.

    26 June 2019


    Photographer: Jim Leslie
    Notes: This former Neptune Aviation Services SP-2H was photographed at the San Diego Air and Space Museum facility at Gillespie Field (near San Diego). It was formerly stored at Alamogordo Airport, NM along with the rest of the Neptune Aviation Services P-2s.

    1 May 2020

    Civil registration, N443NA, cancelled.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
     California News Feed
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Ruud Leeuw.com by Ruud Leeuw
    Individual Contributors
     Mike Henniger
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