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MA-3
MA-3 photographed about 1954.
Courtesy:
AM2 Ron Beaudet
Help with BuNos appreciated.
New January 2, 2004 |
MA-6 & 7
MA-6 & 7 photographed about 1954. Courtesy: AM2 Ron Beaudet
Help with BuNos appreciated.
New January 2, 2004 |
MA-?
Unidentified P2V-5 photographed about 1954. Courtesy: AM2 Ron Beaudet
Help with BuNos appreciated.
New January 2, 2004 |
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MA-8
MA-8 photographed about 1954.
Courtesy:
AM2 Ron Beaudet
Help with BuNos appreciated.
New December 20,
2003 |
MA-9
MA-9 photographed about 1954. Courtesy: AM2 Ron Beaudet
Help with BuNos appreciated.
New December 20, 2003 |
MA-9
A newly arrived P2V-5 photographed about 1954. Courtesy: AM2 Ron Beaudet
Help with BuNos appreciated.
New January 2, 2004 |
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MA-3
MA-3 taken from
another P2V-5 and submitted by Jack Malone who served in VP-23 from 1952-55.
Courtesy Billy Rawl.
Help wanted with BuNo.
See: Billy
Rawls VP-23 website. |
MA-1,2 & 3
Three P2V-5 aircraft of VP-23.
Photo taken from photocopy of a page in Naval Aviation News.
Help with BuNos appreciated, as well as date and time. Bad quality but included for
historical value.
MA-1 and 2 are 131... series, but MA-3 is older, 124..., 127... or 128... series. |
MA-2 (possibly 131401)
Three P2V-5 aircraft of VP-23.
Help with BuNos appreciated, as well as date and time.
Courtesy
Billy
Rawls VP-23 website. |
P2V-7, MA-5,
1000 pixels
Photographed
at NAS Brunswick in
1956-57 by Art
Van Buskirk
New January 18, 2006 |
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P2V-7,
131518,
1000 pixels
Photographed in Spain on September 24, 1954 by Jordi Rull Dalmau.
First photo of a known P2V-5 with VP-23
New March 7, 2011 |
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P2V-7, 135546,
USN Photograph. |
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P2V-7,
135547,
This picture, shot by Bill Pauly of
Crew 12, was contributed by Ron Wheeler, who included the following
comments:
Isn't this what it was all about? Warm summer days, the blue waters off
NAS Roosevelt Roads, being frozen in time tracking a ship, always young,
at least in our pictures, and in our mind's eye – no matter how
clouded that eye may become in the present day – forever young!
New January 2, 2004 |
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P2V-7,
135556,
Part of a USN
photograph taken in May 1962. Included for completeness. |
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P2V-7, 135559,
Photographed at NAS Keflavik in the spring of
1959. Courtesy EN. |
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P2V-7
135563
plust two others of
VP-23 in 1956.
Photo taken by Jerry Baker who served in VP-23 from 1952 to
1956.
Courtesy Billy Rawl. Help wanted with the other two BuNos and Nose Nos.
See: Billy
Rawls VP-23 website.
Note: Record card for 135563 was missing. |
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P2V-7,
135567,
Photo: Courtesy John "JJ" CAMPBELL. Date, location and photographer
unknown |
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P2V-7,
135568,
Photographed in
1956 by David Menard. |
P2V-7,
135568,
1000 pixels
Photographed by
William in 1956. Courtesy
Lionel Paul collection.
new September 23,
2004 |
P2V-7,
135568,
1000 pixels
Note 20 mm. cannon top turret. Probably
photographed later than the two photos to the left.
Date, location
and photographer unknown. Courtesy Jeffery Cultice.
New May 7, 2006 |
P2V-7,
135570,
USN photograph. |
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P2V-7,
135584
Photographed at NAS Keflavik in the
spring of 1959. Courtesy EN. |
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P2V-7,
135596,
1000 pixels
(New February 10, 2010)
Photographed by Robin A. Walker at Blackbushe, England on
February 14, 1960 and used with his permission.
Courtesy
AB-PIC |
P2V-7,
135596,
Photographed at NAS Brunswick, Maine. Date unknown. Courtesy Tom Dinsmore
New November 5, 2002 |
P2V-7,
135596,
Photographed at NAS Brunswick, Maine. Date unknown. Courtesy Tom Dinsmore
New November 5, 2002 |
P2V-7,
135600,
1000 pixels
Photographed at
NAS Keflavik in 1956 by Haraldur Guðmundsson. |
P2V-7,
135600,
Taken in England probably in
1956
With
permission:
©The Flight Collection.
New April 14, 2004 |
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P2V-7,
135602,
Photographed
prior to June 1957. Via Glenn Tweedy, courtesy Jeffery Cultice. |
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P2V-7,
140153.
Photographed in
1957, Courtesy MAP. |
P2V-7,
140153.
Photographed in 1957,Courtesy AAHS D2500, L. Bochelon. |
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P2V-7,
140156.
1000 pixels
Photographed in Copenhagen in
May 1956.
New January 19 2011 |
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P2V-7,
140441.
Photographed in England in 1957. Courtesy MAP |
SP-2H,
140441.
Part of a USN photograph taken in May 1960. Included for completeness. |
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P2V-7,
140977.
USN photograph. Location and date unknown.
Added October 17, 2003 |
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P2V-7,
141232.
Photographed in
1957, by John Spiech. Courtesy Ron Wheeler and Jeffery Cultice. |
P2V-7,
141232.
Profile by Jeffery Cultice, see his website. |
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SP-2H,
141234.
1000 pixels
(New March 7, 2011)
USN photograph from VP-23 history. |
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P2V-7,
141235.
Photographed at
Blackbushe in England in June 1957, by Arthur Pearcy. |
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SP-2H,
141238.
USN photograph
courtesy John Eubanks |
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SP-2H,
141239.
Photographed in
England in 1963. Courtesy MAP |
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SP-2H,
141241.
Photographed in
1965, Courtesy MAP |
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SP-2H,
141246.
Photographed in 1965, Courtesy MAP |
SP-2H,
141246.
1000 pixels
(New March 14, 2011)
Photographed in August 1966 after a hard landing. Courtesy Andrew Monks. |
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SP-2H,
141250.
Photographed in
1967, Courtesy Candid Aero Files |
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SP-2H,
145904.
Bad quality. Included for completeness. |
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SP-2H,
145905.
USN photograph.
Bad quality. Included for completeness. |
SP-2H,
145905.
1000 pixels
Photographed on the flightline at NAS Brunswick, Maine by David Wilding.
New April 13,
2012 |
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SP-2H,
145906.
USN photograph.
Bad quality. Included for completeness. |
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SP-2H,
145907.
1000 pixels
(New April 13, 2012)
Photo
taken on 2 September 1962. CAC 4 Bound for Athens, Greece from Sigonella,
Sicily flying at 5,000 feet. The person waving from the after station is
John Schneid, AO..." Courtesy Peter Juliak and
VPNavy.org |
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SP-2H,
145914.
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1000 pixels
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1000 pixels
Photos taken at NAS Brunswick in August 1965 by David Wilding.
The BuNo on these photos is
not easy to decipher, but comparing it to the photo to the right it is
almost certainly 145914. Having the US flag on the fin, was at this time
an almost certain indication that the airplane was participating in the Latin
American UNITAS ASW excercises. The photo to the right bears very
graphic evidence as to the overpainting of the flag. In fact I had for a
long time been wondering about the position of the LJ so low on the tail
and what had been overpainted.
The airplane in the bacground is almost certainly 147963, which had the
side number 11 in January 1965.
New October 5, 2004
The BuNo 145914 was
confirmed by David Wilding |
SP-2H,
145914.
From the
Collection of Angelo Romano, courtesy Chris Doherty. |
SP-2H,
145914.
A USN photo of LJ-12 dropping depth
charges. Date and location unknown
New October 20, 2002 |
SP-2H,
147951.
USN
photograph. Bad quality. Included for completeness. |
The photo on the left is taken at NAS Argentia
in May 1961, as its CO CDR. W.V.Collins took off for an endurance record
of 22 hours, 54 minutes to help commemorate 50 years of US Naval Aviation.
(Adapted from the January 1962 issue of Naval Aviation News) |
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SP-2H,
147963.
Phototgraphed
at Luqa, Malta in 1968 by Mario Pace.. |
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SP-2H,
147964.
1000 pixels
(New October 7, 2004)
Date: late 1969 or January 1970, photographer and location unknown.
Courtesy MAP. |
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SP-2H,
147969.
1000 pixels
(New July 14, 2004)
Photographed
making a low pass by NAS Brunswick, 20
February 1970. This was the last flight by a Neptune in active-Navy
service.
Courtesy Mahlon K. Miller.
New September 22, 2003 |
SP-2H,
147969.
1000 pixels
U.S.Navy official photo. Caption says:
"Norfolk. Virgina. An SP-2H Neptune patrol aircraft prepares to land at
the Naval Air Station after a flight from its last operational home,
Patrol Squadron 23 (VP-23), at the Naval Air Station, Brunswick, Maine.
With this flight the active life of the Neptune came to an end after a
quarter century of service"
New January 31, 2006 |
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SP-2H,
148350.
The 1000th
Neptune.
Photographed in 1964 in England, Courtesy MAP |
SP-2H,
148350.
The 1000th
Neptune.
Lower Courtesy Wayne Mutzas book. Lockheed P2V Neptune, an illustrated history.
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SP-2H,
148350.
The 1000th
Neptune.
Bottom. USN photo. Date and location unknown. |
SP-2H,
148360.
1000 pixels
(New July 14, 2004)
USN. Photo taken near Gibraltar in October 1964. Courtesy Jeffery Cultice. |
SP-2H,
148360.
1000 pixels
(New March 7, 2011)
USN Photo from VP-23 history. |
SP-2H,
148360.
Photographed in Prestwick Scotland in January 1965 by Wilfred White.. |
SP-2H,
148361.
Photographed in
over Sicily in 1969. USN photograph: |
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