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LOCKHEED PV-2 HARPOON/Bu. 37512
Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon
Bureau #: 37512
Construction #: 15-1478
Civil Registration:
  N7453C
  N144X
  N144CR
  N1448
Model(s):
  PV-2 Harpoon
  PV-2T Harpoon
  Howard Super Harpoon
Name: None
Status: Stored
Last info: 2010
History:
Delivered to United States Navy as Bu. 37512.
  • Brought On Charge: N/A
  • Struck Off Charge: N/A
  • Stored, awaiting disposal, NAS Litchfield Park, AZ, February 25, 1956-1957.
Commercial Cotton Co, Calexico, CA, May 29, 1957.
  • Registered as N7453C.
William N. Byrd & Mobley M. Milam, Calexico, CA, July 5, 1957.
Quintana Petroleum Corp, Houston, TX, July 13, 1967-1967.
  • Registered as N144X, August 7, 1958.
  • Civil conversion to Howard Super Harpoon, completed February 19, 1959
    • Lengthened fuselage.
    • Lengthened nose with radar.
    • Harpoon picture windows.
    • modification to engines and fitted with 4 bladed props.
  • Wings rebuilt & modified by Oakland Airmotive, Oakland, CA, September 1963.
  • Fitted with under-wing "drop" tanks.
Houston Beechcraft Inc, Houston, TX, April 27, 1967.
  • Registered as N1448
Pollito Inc/Arkansas Travel-Aires Inc, Pine Bluff, AR, April 28, 1967-1968.
Astro Airways Corp, Pine Bluff, A, December 1968-1973.
Ralph S. Johnson/RALCO, Cheyenne, WY, September 6, 1973-1976.
Aire Sales & Service Inc, Phoenix, AZ, October 1976-1977.
Schaf-Air Inc, Phoenix, AZ, March 18, 1977-1978.
  • Leased to Interlease Ltd
Global Air Services, Oklahoma City, OK, March 30, 1978.
  • Executive interior removed, May 1978.
S. G. Shaffer, Norman, OK, November 1978-1979.
Oklahoma Aircraft Corp, Yukon, OK, March 26, 1979.
Oil Investment Lease Corp. Miami, FL, April 13, 1979.
Oklahoma Aircraft Corp, Yukon, OK, October 1979.
Old South Agriculture Services Inc, Dania, FL, December 13, 1979.
Christopher P. Ridout, Pembroke Pines, FL, March 25, 1980-1981.
  • Registration N144CR reserved but not taken up, September 1980.
G & S Enterprises, Beverly Hills, CA, June 1, 1981-1987.
  • Registered as N1448.
  • Placed in open storage without engines, Long Beach, CA.
Timothy A. Seidl, West Palm Beach, FL, July 28, 1987-1995.
Aviation Warehouse, El Mirage, CA, 1995-2010.
  • Lucky Lady nose art.
  • Stored with wings removed in El Mirage compound with other aircraft used for movie props.
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