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LOCKHEED PV-2 HARPOON/Bu. 84062

History:
Delivered to United States Navy as Bu. 37480.

• Brought On Charge: N/A
• Struck Off Charge: N/A
• Stored, awaiting disposal, NAS Litchfield Park, AZ, February 1946-1957.
• Total time on airframe: 7 hours

Private Owner, 1957.

• Registered as N9989Z.

Trade-Ayer Inc, Linden Airport, NJ, August 12, 1957.

• Registered as N6657D.

D. U. Howard, San Antonio, TX, February 9, 1960.
Allied Aircraft Sales, June 9, 1961.
Wenairco Inc, Wenatchee, WA, June 10, 1961-1972.

• Converted to fire tanker configuration, June 1961.
• Fitted with fibreglass belly tank.
• Flew as tanker #F37.

William A. Dempsey/Central Air Service, East Wenatchee, WA, 1974-1979.

• Flew as tanker #101.

Bruce Kinney/Kinney Air Tankers, Richey, MT, February 26, 1979-1981.

• Flew as tanker #101.

S. I. Verschoot/Custom Farm Service of Montana, Richey, MT, 1981-1985.
Dennis Hill, Richey, MT, July 1, 1985.
Bruce Kinney/Dawson Aviation, Richey, MT, September 30, 1985.

• Fitted with spraybars for grasshopper spraying.

Eugene Teske/Teske's Aviation, Twin Falls, ID, November 1985-1986.

• Flew a fire bombing contract, based in PA.
• Flew as tanker #101.

Albert L. Hoover, Twin Falls, ID, November 1986-1988.
Quarry Products Inc, Richmond, CA, August 24, 1988-2001.

• Withdrawn from use and placed into storage, Hazelton, PA, 1990-1994.
• Ferried to Ralph Johnson’s J Ranch, Middletown, CA, July 14, 1994.
• Open storage marked as tanker #101, 1994-2010.

Clifford R. Everts, Fairbanks, AK, April 2, 2001-2013.

• Not collected.
• Engines removed for use in C-46s.

Taigh Ramey Vintage Aircraft/Stockton Field Aviation Museum, Stockton, CA, 2010-2020.

• Ferried from J Ranch to Stockton by Taigh Ramey, October 3, 2010.
• Restored to airworthy with upper turret, 2010-2011.
• Certificate of airworthiness renewed, February 10, 2011.
• Flown in USN Scheme with underwing rocket rails as 84062/062

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