The Neptune MR1 replaced the Avro Lancaster GR3 with 210 Squadron early in 1953 after the unit had moved to Topcliffe from St Eval. The unit disbanded at Topcliffe in January 1957 and WX526 was scrapped at RAF Siloth in November 1958. (photo by John Fricker)

Used in Antarctica in 1962-63. Not used again on its return to the US and later scrapped. Photo from: Air Force Museum of New Zealand

A89-304 photographed exercising with the RNZAF off Fiji where the New Zealanders stationed Sunderland flying boats. The museum dates the photo as 1961 but it is known the the aircraft did not have a white top in September that year. It is recorded two RAAF P-2E transitted Fiji twice in August 1962 on a visit to the US and were hosted by the RNZAF. It is not known if A89-304 was one of them. A89-304 was scrapped at Bankstown airport in 1968. Photo from: Air Force Museum of New Zealand

This is actually USN SP-2H BuNo 147954 paint to represent a USAF RB-69A. This particular aircraft was the first P2V-7S delivered, carryingadditional ASW/ECM equipment. Seven P2V-7Us were loaned by the Navy for use by the CIA in covert operations as aerial reconnaissance/ELINT platforms, fitted with a range of surveillance electronics packages. RB-69A 54-4037 in fact was ex BuNo 135612 and was shot down by a MiG-17PF near Yantai on China's Shantung Peninsula in June 1964

This Neptune was taken on strength by the US Navy around 1953 as a P2V-5, later modified to P2V-5F and redesigned P-2E in 1962. In the mid-1960s it was loaned to the Army and converted to AP-2E, a designation allocated to draw attention away from the aircraft's role as a SIGINT handling platform (RP-2E would have been more technically correct). From 1967 to 1972 it operated with the 1st Radio Research Company out of Cam Ranh Bay, Vietnam on signals intelligence work. Returned to the Navy in 1973 and retired to the museum by 1981

A89-311 was withdrawn from use and scrapped at Bankstown airport in 1969. If was one of three P-2Es that had made the RAAF's first circumnavigation of the world in 1957. Photo from: Air Force Museum of New Zealand

Location needs confirmation.

Neptune '216' in a frozen landscape on a cold early winter morning, on it's way to the head of runway 28 for take off. The last Dutch Neptunes were phased out between 1979-1982. '216' was taken out of service on November 7, 1980.

Based at Naha.

Operated by 25F from Lorient/Lann-Bihoué (LFRH).

On standby at Paso Robles Fire Attack Base. Carries the firebombing number "16". Constructed as a P2V-7 and taken on charge new by the US Navy in 1959 as 140963. Joined the Aero Union Corporation at Chico, California as N716AU in 1986 for conversion to firebombing tanker configuration. Transferred to Bravo Airlines Inc of Opa Locka, Florida in 2007.

A nest of old bolts and nuts with some paint around it in one photo. Visible on the picture are P-2E's N203EV (c/n 426-5228, ex BuNo 128382) and N206EV/145 (c/n 426-5363, ex BuNo 131482) destined for Evergreen, HU-16E's N116FB (c/n 461, ex BuNo 148325 and JMSDF 9052), N112FB (c/n 463, ex BuNo 148328, ex JMSDF 9055), unmarked but N2660L (ex c/n 374, ex BuNo 137901), N118FB (c/n 9304, ex RCAF 9304), on top SA-16A N122FB (c/n 218, ex USAF 51-7168), HU-16E N125FB (c/n 73, ex BuNo 141282), N119FB (c/n 456, ex RCAF 9308), and HU-16B N113FB (c/n 322, ex USAF 51-7244), all of a company named Chalk's.

Former US Navy BuNo 147948 was retired to MASDC on 11 October 1975 and struck of charge in 1978. The Neptune was civilianized as N80232 for Central Air Service 1989, apparently never used and stored at Avra Valley. It's registration was cancelled 2018, but the airframe was still present in 2022.