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Aero 9B nose turret from the Neptune at the National Naval Aviation Museum, Florida, 2007.Mostly the one foot longer Aero 9C turret was installed. Before the P-3 Orion arrived in the mid-1960s, the Neptune was the primary U.S. land-based anti-submarine patrol aircraft, intended to be operated as the hunter of a '"Hunter-Killer" group, with destroyers employed as killers.
22 June 1955: While patrolling in the Aleutian Islands area, a P2V-5 (BuNo 131515) of VP-9 based at NAS Kodiak, Alaska, was attacked by two Soviet MiG-15s. The Neptune's starboard engine was hit and caught fire, forcing the crew to crash on St. Lawrence Island near Gambell in the Bering Sea. There were no fatalities to the crew of 11, but four ...
P2V Neptune (1946-1956) [1: Electronic Attack Squadron 131 (VAQ-131), also known as the "Lancers," is a United States Navy tactical jet aircraft squadron ...
A Lockheed P2V Neptune in flight near NAS Patuxent River in 1954 After three months at the Fleet Airborne Electronics Training School in San Diego, California , Carpenter went to a P2V Neptune transitional training unit at Whidbey Island, Washington , [ 1 ] after which he was assigned to Patrol Squadron 6 (VP-6), based at Naval Air Station ...
The Kawasaki P-2J (originally P2V-Kai) is a maritime patrol and ASW aircraft developed for the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force.A twin turboprop-powered version of the radial-engined P-2 Neptune, the P-2J was developed as an alternative to buying the larger and more expensive P-3 Orion, which would eventually replace the P-2J in the 1980s.
3 January 1953: A P2V Neptune crashed off the coast of Washington. Four of the crew survived, one was lost. [9] 13 April 1966: Five P-2 Neptune aircraft were damaged on the ground at Tan Son Nhut Air Base during attacks by Communist forces. The squadron suffered one killed and five wounded in the attack. [1]
Crews working at the site of the deadliest aviation disaster in a generation have recovered all 67 victims of the collision between two aircraft over the Potomac River in Washington, DC, officials ...
The crew ditched with no casualties and were pulled from the water after one and a half hours. April 1955: VP-23 transitioned to the jet-assisted P2V-7 Neptune. At the end of the month the squadron received operational training in the new aircraft during its deployment to NAS Bermuda. A three-aircraft detachment was maintained at Lajes Field ...