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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-26 / P2V / P-2 Neptune
    Latest Model:Firestar
    Last Military Serial:124904 USN
    Construction Number:426-5044
    Last Civil Registration:N208EV
    Compressed ID:Aero Union Firestar sn 124904 USN c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Evergreen Helicopters Inc, McMinnville, OR

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    Dates

    Event

    1 January 1951

    Constructed as a P2V-5F.
    Lockheed P2V-5F 124904

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 124904.

    From 1969 to 1984

    To US Forest Service, Redding, CA with new c/r N126Z.

    1969

    Converted to a Firestar by Aero Union.
    First P-2 Fire tanker, converted Medford, OR.

    8 August 1971


    Photographer: Ron Olsen

    29 September 1975

    Certificate of airworthiness for NX208EV (P2V-5F, 124904) issued.

    By 1977

    Operated by Rosenbalm Aviation, Oregon on Contract to the US Forestry Service.
    Operated with markings: H1

    September 1977


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: The first Neptune fire tanker was N126Z tanker #H1 operated by Rosenbalm Aviation in Oregon on contract to the US Forestry Service. Here it is at the Porterville Aerial Fire Attack Base, California in September 1977, with a recently modified belly tank

    July 1984


    Photographer: Unknown

    29 October 1984

    To Evergreen Helicopters Inc, McMinnville, OR with new c/r N208EV.

    15 October 1997

    To Evergreen Helicopters Inc, McMinnville, OR keeping c/r N208EV.

    18 June 2013

    Civil registration, N208EV, cancelled.
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