Lockheed P2V-1 Neptune, 89082 / 26-1003, US Navy
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Registration: 89082
Construction Number: 26-1003
Code Number: 082/ET - 'The Turtle'
Model Lockheed P2V-1 Neptune
Operator: US Navy
Airport: RAF Northolt (NHT / EGWU), UK - England
Photographer: Les Vowles
Date Taken: 11/05/1949
Date Submitted: 23/03/2021
The 'Turtle' had made a 55hr 11,235 mile record flight in 1946 and in 1949 arrived at Northolt via Plymouth (overhead only) having retraced the 1919 flight of the Curtiss NC-4 from the USA to Lisbon and Plymouth.
Picture ID:1747282