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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-26 / P2V / P-2 Neptune
    Latest Model:AP-2E Neptune
    Last Military Serial:131485 USN
    Construction Number:5366
    Compressed ID:Lockheed AP-2E sn 131485 USN cn 536...
    Latest Owner or Location:United States Army Aviation Museum, Fort Rucker, Enterprise, Alabama

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a P2V-5.

    Circa 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 131485.

    Converted to a P2V-5F.
    Conversion included mounting jet engine under each wing.

    6 July 1962

    Redesignated as P-2E.

    Circa December 1966

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Army with s/n 131485.
    Loaned from the Navy.

    Converted to an AP-2E.
    Converted to AP-2E. While the aircraft should have been technically designated as RP-2E due to their mission, they were given the non-standard designation of AP-2E to disguise their true function. Equipped as signals intelligence aircraft able to intercept, decipher, translate, analyze and disseminate enemy radio communications intelligence.

    From June 1967 to March 1972

    Transferred to 1st Radio Research Company (aka 1st Army Security Agency), Naval Air Facility, Cam Ranh Bay, South Vietnam.
    Operated with markings: The Burbank Boomerang, ARMY, 131485

    Circa 1973

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 131485.
    Returned from loan.

    By November 1981

    To United States Army Aviation Museum, Fort Rucker, Enterprise, AL.
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    29 June 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: US Army Avn Museum Fort Rucker Alabama 1990

    14 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Photographed at storage yard

    14 September 2003


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Photographed at storage yard through chain-link fence.

    January 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    18 July 2018


    Photographer: Luis Sanchez
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    U.S. Military Out of Service 2019/2020 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
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