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Description
| Manufacturer: | Lockheed | |
| Base model: | P2V | |
| Designation: | P2V | |
| Version: | -5 | |
| Nickname: | Neptune | |
| Designation System: | U.S. Navy / Marines | |
| Designation Period: | 1923-1962 | |
| Basic role: | Patrol | |
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Specifications
| Length: | 78' 3" | 23.8 m | |
| Height: | 28' 11" | 8.8 m | |
| Wingspan: | 104' | 31.7 m | |
| Wingarea: | 1,000.0 sq ft | 92.8 sq m | |
| Empty Weight: | 39,900 lb | 18,095 kg | |
| Gross Weight: | 72,000 lb | 32,653 kg | |
| Max Weight: | 77,850 lb | 35,306 kg | |
Propulsion
| No. of Engines: | 2 | ||
| Powerplant: | Wright R-3350-32W | ||
| Horsepower (each): | 3500 | ||
Performance
Known serial numbers
Examples of this type may be found at
| Museum | City | State |
| Fred E. Weisbrod Museum / International B-24 Museum | Pueblo | Colorado |
| NAS Jacksonville | Jacksonville | Florida |
| New England Air Museum | Windsor Locks | Connecticut |
P2V-5 on display
NAS Jacksonville | New England Air Museum |
Recent comments by our visitors
| TJ MEYER Wallops Island, VA | I work for NASA at the former Chincoteague NAAS/NAS/NAOTS. We have been collecting information on the former Navy activities at Chincoteague for about 5 years. We have a number of photos from 1943 - 1959 and are willing to share them with former servicemen. If anyone has any photos or stories about either Chinco NAAS, NAS or NAOTS we would really appreciate them. Thank you for all your service! 08/04/2010 @ 09:08 [ref: 28565] |
| kevin s. hart Oklahoma City, OK | My father, ADR2 Rodney S. Hart was with a Neptune outfit in Chincoteague during Korea. He deployed to Malta during this time frame. I have no other info other than he was a Flight Engineer and that he did four years than got out. I’m trying to get information as to what Squadron he was in and some history. He had a good friend that he would travel to visit and all I know is that his last name was Rice. My father has pasted but I would like to put together a little history to share with my sisters. If anyone has anything to pass on, it would be appreciated.
Kevin S. Hart USN Ret. 05/14/2010 @ 12:34 [ref: 26170] |
| kevin s. hart Oklahoma City, OK | My father, ADR2 Rodney S. Hart was with a Neptune outfit in Chincoteague during Korea. He deployed to Malta during this time frame. I have no other info other than he was a Flight Engineer and that he did four years than got out. I’m trying to get information as to what Squadron he was in and some history. He had a good friend that he would travel to visit and all I know is that his last name was Rice. My father has pasted but I would like to put together a little history to share with my sisters. If anyone has anything to pass on, it would be appreciated.
Kevin S. Hart USN Ret. 05/14/2010 @ 12:34 [ref: 26169] |
| Tom Reynolds Lubbock, TX | I served in the 50's at the end of the Korean War and the P2V was one of the best spy aircraft we had. I was an Air Intercept Tech and had to make many calls for this type of aircraft shot down off the cost of China where they were about the business of checking out the Communist defense system. The Chinese shot at them all the time but their system was very bad and they usually missed but sometimes they did not. This aircraft is very good and can travel long distance and even fly with only one engine. 03/24/2009 @ 08:16 [ref: 24004] |
| grant bussard Lancaster, CA | Tanker 48 has the yellow tail and is owned by menden air of menden NV. It's a -7 p-2v. During the fires (2007) We also had almost all of the p2v's owned by neptune inc of missoula MT. -5's and -7's. You should hear the jets as they take off, still a cool sound! There was also few SP2h's around as air tankers up til 2003 then Areo Union sold them to companies overseas.
Grant Bussard Fox Airtanker Base Lancaster ca. 11/22/2007 @ 13:55 [ref: 18635] |
| Walt Edminster Scottsboro, AL | In the mid fifties I was a radar operator (AT1) in VP6, crew 12 based at Barbers Point, Hawaii. A short time ago I received an email from my old PPC saying, “Do you realize that a half century ago we were flying P2Vs all over the Pacific?” Actually it didn’t seem like it was that long ago. More like it was just yesterday. After leaving the Navy I spent 50 years in the space industry. Twenty of those years were spent in the Middle East trying to survive two wars while teaching Arabs how to keep their missile systems operating. These were exciting times but I can truthfully say my years in VP6 were the most exciting years of my life. My wife, who I met and married in Hawaii, used to say I loved those darned P2Vs more than I loved her. She might be right but on the other hand, I did keep her 50 years. I was just watching TV coverage of the California Malibu fires (Oct 2007) when a P2V with a big yellow tail flew across the screen dumping chemicals. My heart skipped a beat. I was glad to see there were a few still flying. 10/24/2007 @ 18:06 [ref: 18294] |
| Cdr. A. G. Alexander USN. (Ret) Whitefish, MT | I first started flying the Neptune (P2V-5) in 1953 , VP-9 . based in Alameda, CA. I then flew in the Reserves at NAS Oakland, (P2V-4) , went back to Active Duty with orders to the Advanced Training Command, ATU-64 Hutchinson KS.,(P2V-2, -3 , -4), when it closed, NAS Corpus, ATU-501,(2.3,4, and the -6 , which we changed into P2V-6T) and then orders to VP-2 (P2V-7).
After several tours on College, a Carrier and then Lockheed, Production Test in P3-B. After fast orders to VO-67 , back to P2V-5F's, completely overhauled into what was then named the OP-2E. I lost my Medical Ticket after a heart Attack. The last thing I have seen about the Neptune are the overhauled -5F's and -7's at Neptune Aviation Services in Missoula, MT., I had been invited to stop by and see the Aircraft. I met Chis Holm and he gave me a "Cooks Tour" and as a career Aircraft Maintenance Officer, I was really impressed. Those good old Neptunes are really a great aircraft. Alex 06/05/2007 @ 15:43 [ref: 16751] |
| Billy Rawl Columbia, SC | Like a previous commenter, I was also an AO2, but served in VP-23 at NAS Brunswick, ME from 1952-1955 as a crewmember in P4Y's and P2V's. This is a picture taken during that period of either a -5J or -7.
http://aeroweb.brooklyn.cuny.edu/database/aircraft/getimage.htm?id=14234 Although after my discharge from the Navy in 1955 I thought I was through with airplanes, after a couple of years attempting to go to college I reconsidered, and wound up in the USAF Aviation Cadet Program and served in the USAF as a Pilot. After my obligation was up I was employed by TWA until my retirement as a Captain. My experience at an early age in P2Vs had a great deal to do with my subsequent career! 03/20/2007 @ 04:37 [ref: 15967] |
| Ron West (Arby) Flower Mound, TX | I served in VP-4 as an AO2 and was an aircrew member in Sugar Charlie 7 during 1954-1956 LT Norgart was the PPC, LT(jg) White flew the right hand seat. Chief Willy Williamson was the PC
Home base was Whidbey Island Washington. Flew out of Iwakuni, Japan, Kadena, Okinawa and Chitosi, Japan (detachment Able) and Barbers Point, Hawaii. Made the grand tour of Australia in 1955. Wound up in the 3rd RAAF hospital in Sydney with for an appendectomy; got back to the states about two months after everyone else. Wasn't too bad though, the Aussies treated me like royality. 10/05/2006 @ 17:28 [ref: 14384] |
| Mac McComas Grayville, IL | When I graduated from AT "A" school in 1956, we were allowed to choose our billets. I graduated down around the middle of the class and all the VW's and VP's were gone. I chose VA (HM)13 only because I had a buddy stationed there. What a surprise when I checked in to Chincoteague, VA in 1957 and saw 12 P2V-5's on the ramp. Little did I know that VA(HM)13 was actually VP-24. I was
made 2nd Tech for about 3 months and then 1st tech on the Skpper's crew. The old "5" was a good-flying aircraft and I have many hours in it, until we switched to "7's". I always felt safe in the "5" because in certain instances, it would fly itself (off the runway, etc.). Good, good aircraft. I retired as AVCM in 1975. 09/08/2006 @ 03:43 [ref: 14096] |
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