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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-26 / P2V / P-2 Neptune
    Latest Model:P-2H Neptune
    Last Military Serial:140154 USN
    Construction Number:726-7057
    Last Civil Registration:N8056D
    Compressed ID:Lockheed P-2H sn 140154 USN cn 726-...
    Latest Owner or Location:The Museum of Flight and Aerial Firefighting, South Bighorn County Airport, Greybull, Wyoming

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a P2V-7.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 140154.

    By January 1960

    Converted to a P2V-7S.

    1962

    Redesignated as P-2H.

    30 May 1973

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number IP339.

    29 July 1974

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

    To Hawkins and Powers, South Bighorn County Airport, Greybull, WY.
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    By 1990

    To Air Acres Museum, Cartersville, GA.
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    27 May 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at Air Acres Museum

    27 May 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    19 March 1992

    To Reva J. Brady, Cartersville, GE with new c/r N8056D.

    September 2005

    To Pride Capital Group, Deerfield, IL keeping c/r N8056D.
    Not relocated from Greybull when the ownership changed.

    6 September 2007

    To Harold Sheppard Jr. DBA, Riverton, WY keeping c/r N8056D.
    Not immediately relocated from Greybull when the ownership changed.

    6 September 2007

    To Sheppard Harold Jr DBA, Riverton, WY keeping c/r N8056D.

    16 November 2008

    Spotted at Greybull.
    Your Assistance is Needed: This airframe may never have left Greybull, but rather may have been scrapped on-site. Can you confirm? If so please share any information you have with aerial visuals.
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    To The Museum of Flight and Aerial Firefighting, South Bighorn County Airport, Greybull, WY.
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    8 January 2022

    Civil registration, N8056D, cancelled.
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    unreviewed imported data.
    If you can verify the documented history or add to it with additional text and/or photos please feel free to do so by using the upload tool and the history editor.
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2007 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     AMCAR
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Ruud Leeuw.com by Ruud Leeuw
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols
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