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• Lockheed P-2 Neptune •

Some images from my collection - Photographer's name © and date when known

Another of my favourite aircraft - I have quite a few.
To go to a larger image, please click on the appropriate interactive thumbnail.
Varied selection of tailcodes to be noted, just in these images, include 6A Anacostia; 6G Alameda; 6M Memphis; 7B Atlanta; 7D Dallas; 7E Twin Cities; 7K Olanthe; 7L Los Alamitos; 7R New York; 7T Seattle: and 7V Glenview. For the best information, check out the incredible site of Neptune Specialist, Baldur Sveinsson. Here is a link for you.
4753 Lockheed P-2J Neptune (7052) Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force - JMSDF, at NAF Atsugi.

Photo: Toshiyuki Toda © 22 July 1975 - Rainer Haufschild Collection - Aird Archives

144687 Lockheed SP-2H Neptune (7138) Aéronavale.

Photo:G. R. via Bo-Göran Lundkvist © August 1978- Rainer Haufschild Collection - Aird Archives

128347 Lockheed DP-2E-LO Neptune (426-5193) UE/32 VC-5 Squadron, USN.

Photo: Toshiyuki Toda © August 1975 - Rainer Haufschild Collection - Aird Archives

124868 / 209 Lockheed P2V-5 Neptune - United States Navy, stored at MASDC - Davis-Monthan AFB., Tucson, Arizona.

The third of twenty-three Model 426-42-06 produced.

Photo: Neil Aird © 09 September 1968

131528 Lockheed OP-2E Neptune- USN MR/1, one of several machines of VO-67 Squadron recently arrived at MASDC - Davis-Monthan AFB., Tucson, Arizona.

Top photo: Neil Aird © 10 September 1968. Lower photo: Tom Baillie © 10 September 1968

135545 Lockheed SP-2H Neptune (726-7002) USN YC/3 VP-2 Squadron at Iwakinu MCAS, Japan.

Photo: Kihei Kitagawa © 25 April 1966 - Aird Archives

Arrived MASDC - Davis-Monthan AFB., 07 November 1972. To Allied Aircraft 22 Deptember 1978.

VH-LRR ex 147566 in 2003 with Historical Aircraft Restoration Society at Illawarra Regional Airport, NSW. 

Photo: Peter Reardon © 2009

128342 Lockheed DP-2E-LO Neptune (426-5188) UE/30 VC-5 Squadron, USN. At Itami / Osaka - RJOO, Japan.

Photo: Kihei Kitagawa © 30 September 1965 - Aird Archives

Noted at MASDC in December 1978.

4733 Lockheed P-2J Neptune (7032) Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force - JMSDF, at Shimofusa - RJFL, Japan.

Photo: Unknown photographer © 25 May 1986 - John Mounce Collection - Aird Archives

144683 Lockheed SP-2H Neptune (426-7139) QC/8 VP-28 VC-5 Squadron, USN at Itami / Osaka, Japan.

Photo: Kihei Kitagawa © 27 August 1964 - Aird Archives

131537 Lockheed SP-2H Neptune (426-5418) RB/9 VP-42 Squadron, USN, parked in the Shinmaywa factory yard at Itami / Osaka, Japan.

Photo: Kihei Kitagawa © 27 August 1964 - Aird Archives

140154 Lockheed SP-2H Neptune (426-7057) YC/6 VP-2 Squadron, USN, landing at Iwakunu MCAS, Japan.

Photo: Kihei Kitagawa © 25 April 1966 - Aird Archives

Noted at MASDC in 30 May 1973, SOC 29 July 1974 to N8056D with Hawkins and Powers. Stored at Greybull - KGEY, Wyoming. Logged 25 April 1998.

N8056D Lockheed SP-2H Neptune (426-7057) at Greybull - KGEY, Wyoming, exactly thirty-two years later!

Photo: Neil Aird © 25 April 1998

N80232 Lockheed SP-2H Neptune (426-7198) ex 147948 in long term store at Avra Valley, Arizona.

Photo: Neil Aird © 04 May 2009

217 / V Lockheed SP-2H Neptune (726-7153) ex 146434, of KON.MARINE landing at Valkenburg, Netherlands.

Photo: Unknown photographer © 23 July 1978 - Aird Archives

209 / V Lockheed SP-2H Neptune (726-7261) of KON.MARINE at Schleswig/Jagel - ETNS, Germany.

Photo: Rainer Haufschild © 12 April 1972 - Rainer Haufschild Collection - Aird Archives

4753 Lockheed P-2J Neptune (7033) Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force - JMSDF, at NAF Atsugi.

Photo: Toshiyuki Toda © 22 July 1975 - Rainer Haufschild Collection - Aird Archives

123871 Lockheed EP-2H Neptune (426-5009) 7E/213, USN, at Opa-Locka - KOPF, Florida.

Photo: via Bo-Göran Lundkvist © December 1968 - Rainer Haufschild - Aird Archives

More images coming every now and then from the wonderful Rainer Haufschild Collection and a few other photographers.
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