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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-26 / P2V / P-2 Neptune
    Latest Model:P2V-7S Neptune
    Last Military Serial:147948 USN
    Construction Number:726-7198
    Last Civil Registration:N80232
    Compressed ID:Lockheed P2V-7S sn 147948 USN cn 72...
    Latest Owner or Location:Maricopa Aircraft Service Inc, Tucson, AZ

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a P2V-7.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 147948.

    January 1960

    Converted to a P2V-7S.

    11 October 1975

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 1P0394.

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number PA0016.

    29 May 1978

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC).

    From 17 April 1989 to By 2000

    To Central Air Service, East Wenatchee, WA with new c/r N80232.

    By 1990

    Placed in open storage in a contractors yard at Davis Monthan AFB.

    1991

    A partial tanker conversion was carried out at Tucson, AZ.

    20 November 1991

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR80232 (LOCKHEED SP-2H(P2V7), 147948) issued.

    From By 1993 to By 2008

    Withdrawn from use and placed in open storage at Avra Valley, AZ.

    October 1996


    Photographer: Peter M. Garwood
    Notes: P2V Neptune N80232, Avra Valley, AZ, Oct96

    October 2000

    To Maricopa Aircraft Service, Tucson, AZ keeping c/r N80232.

    11 October 2000

    On behalf of the owner stored with/at Central Air Service, Marana Northwest Regional Airport (formerly Avra Valley Airport), Marana, AZ.
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    21 March 2007


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Photo taken at Marana Northwest Regional Airport, AZ, USA

    8 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    31 July 2013

    To Maricopa Aircraft Service Inc, Tucson, AZ keeping c/r N80232.

    6 March 2018

    Civil registration, N80232, cancelled.

    10 March 2024


    Photographer: Cassidy Cristello
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     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
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