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LOCKHEED PV-2 HARPOON/Bu. 37492
Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon Bu. 37492
Bureau #: 37492
Construction #: 15-1458
Civil Registration:
  N7270C
  N72707
Location:
  33°50'05.7"N 78°40'22.0"W
Model(s):
  PV-2 Harpoon
Name: None
Status: Displayed
Last info: 2020
History:
Delivered to United States Navy as Bu. 37492.
  • Brought On Charge: N/A
  • Struck Off Charge: N/A
  • Stored, awaiting disposal, NAS Litchfield Park, AZ, June 29, 1954-1957.
Private Owner, 1957.
  • Registered as N7270C.
W. F. Patterson, 1960-1961.
Dee Howard Co, San Antonio, TX, 19??.
  • Fitted with large cargo door.
Flight Investment Corp, Miami, FL, 1963-1964.
John B. Miller, Fort Lauderdale, FL, 1964.
  • Damaged when aircraft nosed over during landing, Aruba, Antilles, July 27, 1964.
Coperative Militares en Retiro, Colombia, 1964.
  • Registered as HK-????.
Removed from U.S. Civil registry on June 18, 1965.
Exportadores y Proveedores Colombianos Ltda/EXPRACO, Colombia, January 21, 1969.
Samuel E. Pool/ Lake Wales Air Services, Lake Wales FL 16.1.69
  • Registered as N7270C.
Aircraft Specialties Inc, Mesa, AZ, 1969-1981.
  • Registered as N72707, January 28, 1970.
  • Converted to agricultural spreader configuration, completed October 1970.
  • Certificate of airworthines renewed, October 27, 1970.
  • Modified to insecticide sprayer configuration, June 1971.
Globe Air Inc, Mesa, AZ, February 18, 1981-1985.
  • Final flight, Mesa, AZ, August 31, 1985.
  • Total airframe time: 1975 hours
Consolidated Aviation Enterprises, East Middlebury, VT, October 1985.
  • Acquired from Globe Air closing down auction at Mesa, AZ, October 24, 1985.
Classic Aviation International, Rosharon, TX, October 1986-1989.
Aircraft Acquisition Service, Silver Spring, MD, 1990-1993.
  • Restored to military configuration.
  • Flewn in U.S. Navy scheme as 37492/171/UP.
Early Flying Inc, Arlington, GA, May 1994-1995.
  • Damaged during landing, Houston-Southwest, TX, July 1994.
John Lister, San Antonio, TX, November 1995.
Removed from U.S. Civil registry on November 27, 1995.
Displayed at a firing range in Texas.
Mayday Minigolf Course, North Myrtle Beach, VA, 2000-2020.
  • Mounted on pylon at entrance in yellow scheme.
  • Marked as Air Tropic Island Charters.
Photo Source(s):
Ralph M. Peterson

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