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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-14/15/18 / B-34 / C-56 C-60 / PV / R5O
    Latest Model:PV-2 Harpoon
    Last Military Serial:37550 USN
    Last Civil Registration:N7251C
    Compressed ID:Lockheed PV-2 sn 37550 USN cr N7251...
    Latest Owner or Location:United States Airpower Museum, Fresno Air Terminal / Yosemite Airport, Fresno, California

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    Dates

    Event

    1957

    Constructed as a PV-2.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 37550.

    21 January 1958

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR7251C (PV-2, 37550) issued.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 37550.

    By September 1986


    Photographer: Unknown

    21 July 1987

    To Aafchan Air, Chandler, AR with new c/r N7251C.

    Based at Memorial Airport, Chandler, AZ.
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    September 1989


    Photographer: Jacqueline Fischer
    Notes: Chandler-Memorial, AZ

    4 October 2001


    Photographer: Bob Jarvis
    Notes: Taken at Chandler-Memorial, it was one of three 1945 build ex-USN PV-2s on the field that day.

    17 March 2007


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Photo taken at Chandler Memorial, AZ, USA

    22 June 2007

    To United States Airpower Museum, Fresno, CA keeping c/r N7251C.

    In the inventory of United States Airpower Museum, Fresno Air Terminal/Yosemite Airport, Fresno, CA.
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    7 May 2013

    Civil registration, N7251C, cancelled.

    October 2017


    Photographer: Ruud Leeuw

    25 March 2018


    Photographer: Axel Klegien
    Notes: A 2018 shot of the continued decline of this Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon at Chandler, AZ
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