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Description
| Manufacturer: | Martin | |
| Base model: | P4M | |
| Designation: | P4M | |
| Version: | -1 | |
| Nickname: | Mercator | |
| Designation System: | U.S. Navy / Marines | |
| Designation Period: | 1923-1962 | |
| Basic role: | Patrol | |
Specifications
| Not Yet Available |
Known serial numbers
Recent comments by our visitors
| bruce sheppard grasonville, MD | note for barry messinger
http://www.centurum.com/vq/ is the VQ Association website, would be an excellent source of info on VQ acft shot down & involved in hostile incidents while on recconaisance missions. P4M, EC121, and EP3 aircraft all come to mind 05/08/2008 @ 07:18 [ref: 20827] |
| Bill Bonney AT 2 Grand Prairie, TX | Flew In #124370, #124372, #124208 out of Port Lyautey
From Oct 1952 to June 1954 as an ECM operator. There were no ejection seats on that most magnificant aircraft. When you had two turning and two burning you felt as if no one could catch you. Fortunately for me, they didn't. There were doors in the belly just aft of the pilots compartmant and between the ECM #5 station and the tail gunner. There were escape hatches on top of the wing and the pilot compartment 02/02/2008 @ 13:57 [ref: 19514] |
| Barry Messinger , NV | My father was aboard th P4M-1Q 124362 when it was shot down August 22, 1956. If anyone has information please let me know.
10/27/2007 @ 12:00 [ref: 18316] |
| Ron Gorman Honolulu, Hawaii, HI | AT2. Flew radar with VW1,Det.A and VQ1 from '53 to '55 at Sangley Point, P.I. and Iwakuni, Japan. Wonderful planes. Great duty. Did a stint as NCOIC at Naha, Okinawa for the sqdn. I wish I had all the money that was spent on spark plugs for those 4360s while I was there. No, there were NO ejection seats at any positions, pilots included... and ECM positions included too.
09/15/2007 @ 19:12 [ref: 17933] |
| Ralph Wetterhahn Long Beach, CA | Does anyone know if the Mercator had any ejection seats installed for any of the crew? 05/09/2006 @ 09:37 [ref: 13231] |
| Sam McIntyre Dallas, TX | I recently found a great book all about the Mercator. It has a lot of history and good pictures. I bought it from Squadron Mail Order. Their phone no. is 972/242-8663.
heir email is mailorder@squadron.com 12/09/2005 @ 11:30 [ref: 11932] |
| Chuck Piotrowski Rutland, VT | In astronuat Scott Carpenter's biography _For Spacious Skies_ there are a few paragraphs on his test flying a P4M with a Yagi experimental antenna. According to the book the antenna was lost during a flight. (pp. 135-136 New American Library softcover edition, 2004). 07/05/2005 @ 22:41 [ref: 10675] |
| Chuck Piotrowski Rutland, VT | In astronuat Scott Carpenter's biography _For Spacious Skies_ there are a few paragraphs on his test flying a P4M with a Yagi experimental antenna. According to the book the antenna was lost during a flight. (pp. 135-136 New American Library softcover edition, 2004). 07/05/2005 @ 22:41 [ref: 10674] |
| william [bill] white pensacola, FL | I went to the P.I. in 1951 with Special Projects to Sangley Point with 4 P4Ms. Was there for 26 months ,great duty for a young country boy from Georgia.There I started my AE rating.Lots different tnen following the mule.Served 27 years in our navy,enjoyed it all,even the big flat tops.I remmber LCDR.Johnson as co. good guy. 06/01/2005 @ 19:51 [ref: 10369] |
| Pete Bohley , OH | I was a P4M crew AT2(radio/radar/nose turret) with about 400 hours, flying out of Sangley in late 1953/4. We had
good aircraft, good pilots, good maintenance people, good crews and even though we were (probably) chased twice (never caught)I never felt seriously threatened. Things just worked the way they were supposed to-- Thanks guys-- A hole in the tail from a cooked-off round from the top turret after gunnery practice seemed pretty tame at the time but memorable. 02/08/2005 @ 13:42 [ref: 9395] |
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