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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-26 / P2V / P-2 Neptune
    Latest Model:SP-2E Neptune
    Last Military Serial:128346 USN
    Construction Number:5192
    Last Civil Registration:N96264
    Compressed ID:Lockheed SP-2E sn 128346 USN cn 519...
    Latest Owner or Location:Neptune Aviation, Missoula International Airport, Missoula, Montana

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a P2V-5.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 128346.

    Redesignated as SP-2E.

    23 September 1974


    Photographer: eLaReF
    Notes: At the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposition Center: Davis-Monthan A.F.B., Arizona

    From 1 November 1976 to By 1993

    To Black Hills Aviation Inc, Alamogordo, NE with new c/r N96264 (P2V-5F, 128346).

    Operated as fire service #12.


    Photographer: Unknown

    March 1990


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Alamogordo, NM

    From 13 September 1993 to 1999

    To Neptune Aviation Services Inc, Missoula, MT keeping c/r N96264.

    Based at Neptune Aviation, Missoula International Airport, Missoula, MT.
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    Operated as fire service #12.

    10 September 2012


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Reno Air Races at the Reno-Stead Airport, Nevada.

    10 September 2012


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Reno Air Races at the Reno-Stead Airport, Nevada.

    17 September 2012


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the CDF base in Redding, California.

    31 July 2021

    Civil registration, N96264, cancelled.
    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 2010 by Andy Marden
    Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
     AMCAR
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Ruud Leeuw.com by Ruud Leeuw
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