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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-26 / P2V / P-2 Neptune
    Latest Model:SP-2H Neptune
    Last Military Serial:A89-273 RAAF
    Construction Number:7273
    Last Civil Registration:VH-IOY
    Compressed ID:Lockheed SP-2H sn A89-273 RAAF cn 7...
    Latest Owner or Location:Carryowl Pty Limited, Albion Park Rail, NSW

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    Dates

    Event

    1 January 1961

    Constructed as a SP-2H.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 149073.

    From Circa 10 March 1962 to 1977

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Australian Air Force with s/n A89-273.

    From 1977 to 1981

    Withdrawn from use.
    Stored at Townsville.

    7 May 1981

    To Carryowl Pty Limited, Albion Park Rail, NSW with new c/r VH-IOY.

    7 May 1981

    Operated by Historical Aircraft Restoration Society Inc.

    April 1983


    Photographer: Geoff Goodall
    Notes: This former RAAF Lockheed P2V-7/SP-2H Neptune A89-273 was retired at Townsville with stripped interior and sold to a scrap metal merchant. In 1978 it was saved at the last minute by a local syndicate headed by Peter Rundle and Randal MacFarlane.The restoration project seemed impossibly ambitious at the time, but on 9 May 1981 it flew again, as a civil aircraft VH-IOY.Here the Neptune makes a low pass at Mangalore Vic in April 1983

    21 September 1993

    To Carryowl Pty Limited, Castle Hill, NSW keeping c/r VH-IOY.

    Based at Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (H. A. R. S.), Wollongong Airport, Wollongong, New South Wales.
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    4 December 2007

    To Carryowl Pty Limited, Albion Park Rail, NSW keeping c/r VH-IOY.

    6 May 2012


    Photographer: Arthur Scarf
    Notes: At Historical Aircraft Restoration Society (H. A. R. S.), Wollongong Airport, Wollongong, New South Wales

    November 2019


    Photographer: Nigel Hitchman
    Notes: At the RAAF Edinburgh Australia Airshow
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