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| Keywords: Lockheed PV-2 NMNA.jpg The museum's example of the PV-2 Harpoon Bureau Number 37230 was accepted by the Navy at Naval Auxiliary Air Station NAAS Holtsville California in December 1945 It remained at the station until the following February at which time it was sent to Naval Air Facility NAF Litchfield Park Arizona a base used primarily for the long term storage of aircraft However this was not destined to be the fate of Bureau Number 37230 which spent only a week there before being flown to Naval Air Station NAS Olathe Kansas where it commenced service with the Naval Air Reserve The airplane flew in support of the training of reservists at NAS Olathe NAS Moffett Field California and NAS Minneapolis Minnesota until 1951 at which time it entered overhaul and repair Converted to the PV-2T configuration Bureau Number 37230 joined Marine Night Fighter Training Squadron VMFT N -20 at Marine Corps Air Station MCAS Cherry Point North Carolina in 1952 and flew with that squadron for the ensuing three years Stricken from the Navy aircraft inventory following this assignment the airplane entered the private sector and over the course of the ensuing decades it passed through several owners the first appearance on civil aviation rolls in Houston Texas in 1957 Subsequently Bureau Number 37230 flew as an aerial fire fighter and agricultural sprayer for owners in Oregon Texas Oklahoma and Nebraska before its purchase by Hirth Air Tankers of Buffalo Wyoming in 1989 With the latter company the airplane supporting the effort to fight forest fires in the western states until flight delivered to the National Naval Aviation Museum in 2000 It is currently on outdoor static display painted in a wartime Marine Corps scheme U S National Museum of Naval Aviation http //collections naval aviation museum/emuwebdoncoms/objects/common/webmedia php irn 38031 2009-06-18 U S National Museum of Naval Aviation PD-USGov-Military-Navy Lockheed PV-2 Harpoon museum aircraft Aircraft at National Museum of Naval Aviation 2009 in aviation | ||||
