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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.
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The museum is devoted to the history of naval aviation, including that of the United States Navy, the United States Marine Corps, and the United States Coast Guard.Its mission is "to select, collect, preserve and display" appropriate memorabilia representative of the development, growth and historic heritage of United States Naval Aviation. [2]
The original aircraft, assigned in 1951, was a P2V Neptune but the aircraft's narrow cabin made work difficult so that a larger, aircraft a Douglas C-54 Skymaster, designated NC-54R, replaced it. [ 2 ] [ 4 ] The final aircraft was a specially built Lockheed P-3 Orion variant designated RP-3D. [ 2 ]
Lockheed AP-2H Neptune: USN 135620 On outdoor display Lockheed P-2H Neptune: USN 150281 In storage Lockheed C-130A Hercules: USAF 57-0457 On outdoor display Lockheed C-130D Hercules: USAF 57-0493: On outdoor display, equipped with skis for operations at the North Pole. Lockheed EC-121T Warning Star: USAF 53-0554: On outdoor display
Source: U.S. Navy sailor or employee (photo taken by member of U.S. Navy observation squadron VO-67) see photo here, source of photo stated here: "contributed by Bob (Dusty) Reynolds" (squadron member, stated here (see July 11, 2001), photo has been first uploaded on enWP; this photo was also published by the U.S. Navy in the U.S. Navy Naval Aviation News, issue July 1981, p.33 .
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