Former US Navy Lockheed P-3A Orion, 151377
(c/n 185-5090), being stripped for parts by Aero Union
Chico Municipal Airport (CIC)
March 1998
(Camera: Nikon FM, scanned 35mm color negative)
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P2V-7 (later P2V-7S) 140980 (c/n 726-7082), in storage at Aero Union.
This Neptune was last registered as N980AP. However, US FAA records indicate that registration was cancelled in 2005, with the reason for cancellation stated as "Destroyed."
This is almost certainly one of the Neptune aircraft that were scrapped by Aero Union in its last years.
Chico Municipal Airport (CIC)
March 1998
(Camera: Nikon FM, scanned 35mm color negative)
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Former US Navy P2V-7S / P-2H Neptune 148339
(c/n 726-7224) in storage at Aero Union.
Chico Municipal Airport (CIC)
March 1998
(Camera: Nikon FM, scanned 35mm color negative)
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Grumman AF-2S Guardian, former US Navy 123088.
This aircraft was owned by the now-defunct Aero Union company when I photographed it at Chico Municipal Airport (CIC) in August 2002.
Until they were replaced by the Grumman S2F Tracker, US Navy aircraft carriers were protected from submarines by "hunter/killer" teams of AF-2 Guardians in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
AF-2W Guardians were equipped with radar for detecting submarines, and AF-2S Guardians were equipped with a choice of torpedoes, bombs or depth charges in their weapons bays.
For more about this particular AF-2S, see:
www.aerialvisuals.ca/AirframeDossier.php?Serial=5829
For more about the Guardian in general, see:
www.navalaviationmuseum.org/attractions/aircraft-exhibits...
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Weapons bay, capable of accommodating torpedoes, bombs or depth charges, looking aft.
Grumman AF-2S Guardian, former US Navy 123088
This aircraft was owned by the now-defunct Aero Union company when I photographed it at Chico Municipal Airport (CIC) in August 2002.
Until they were replaced by the Grumman S2F Tracker, US Navy aircraft carriers were protected from submarines by "hunter/killer" teams of AF-2 Guardians in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
AF-2W Guardians were equipped with radar for detecting submarines, and AF-2S Guardians were equipped with a choice of torpedoes, bombs or depth charges in their weapons bays.
For more about this particular AF-2S, see:
www.aerialvisuals.ca/AirframeDossier.php?Serial=5829
For more about the Guardian in general, see:
www.navalaviationmuseum.org/attractions/aircraft-exhibits...
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