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LOCKHEED PV-2 HARPOON/Bu. 37492

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.

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