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    Airframe Family: Martin PBM Mariner
    Latest Model:PBM-5A Mariner
    Last Military Serial:122071 USN
    Last Civil Registration:N3190G
    Compressed ID:Martin PBM-5A sn 122071 USN cr N319...
    Latest Owner or Location:Quality Components Inc, Irvine, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a PBM-5A.

    July 1948

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 122071.

    Guns and turrets removed.

    Transferred to Naval Air Activity Annapolis.
    Used for training and indoctrination of US Naval Academy midshipmen.

    Assigned to Lichtfield Park, AZ for storage.

    December 1956

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    To Ralph Duponte with new c/r N3190G.
    Conversion to a fire bomber planned.

    From 1958 to By 1966

    To Bacon Aircraft Co, Riverside-Thermal, CA.

    From By 1960 to By 1972

    Originally intended for use for tropical fish carriage from South America. Instead placed in open storage at Therman, CA.

    From By 1969 to By 1970

    To Ipicsa Inc, Hollywood, CA.

    1971

    To Smithsonian-National Air and Space Museum, Washington, DC.
    View the Location Dossier

    1972

    Loaned to Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
    View the Location Dossier

    6 September 1972

    To Quality Components Inc, Irvine, CA keeping c/r N3190G.

    25 September 1980


    Photographer: Paul Thallon
    Notes: 1980 photo at Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, AZ - of a Martin PBM-5A Mariner

    11 August 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    Circa 1996


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At the Pima Air and Space Museum, Arizona.

    Restored.
    Markings Applied: 122071, 071, RZ
    Painted in the markings of VR-21.

    16 October 2000


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, AZ.

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    25 February 2013

    Civil registration, N3190G, cancelled.


    Photographer: Larry Johnson
    Notes: I shot this in the early 1970s, possibly 1972.

    July 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla
    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
     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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