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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-26 / P2V / P-2 Neptune
    Latest Model:SP-2E Neptune
    Last Military Serial:131506 USN
    Construction Number:5387
    Last Civil Registration:N13852
    Compressed ID:Lockheed SP-2E sn 131506 USN cn 538...
    Latest Owner or Location:Neptune Inc, Alamogordo, NM

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a P2V-5.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 131506.

    Converted to a SP-2E.

    Markings Applied: LL

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number 1P010.

    20 October 1976

    To Consolidated Aeronautical Corp, Tucson, AZ.

    From March 1982 to By 1993

    To Black Hills Aviation, Alamogordo, NM with new c/r N13852.

    From 1985 to By 2005

    Stored unprotected in derelict condition at Alamogordo, NM.

    March 1990


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Alamogordo, NM

    13 September 1993

    To Neptune Aviation Services Inc, Missoula, MT with new c/r N13852.

    Based at Neptune Aviation, Missoula International Airport, Missoula, MT.
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    To Neptune Aviation Services, Alamogordo White Sands Regional, Alamogordo, NM.
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    14 September 1999

    To Neptune Inc, Alamogordo, NM with new c/r N13852.

    By 19 July 2002


    Photographer: Unknown

    9 November 2010

    Civil registration, N13852, cancelled.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    AMCAR
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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