In military service with the US Navy as 148346. Purchased by Hawkins & Powers Aviation in early 1990 from surplus stocks held at MASDC, Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona. Hurriedly readied for a ferry flight to the H&P base at Greybull, Wyoming where it was kept in store pending future conversion to a firebomber. When H&P operations ceased in 2006, sold to Neptune Aviation Services of Montana and stripped for parts.

K25 slide scan. Built 1961 as P2V-7 148346, later redesignated SP-2H. Retired to MASDC 1978. Hawkins and Powers N2216S, stored Greybull. Neptune Aviation 2006, remained stored Greybull.

One of many stored Neptunes at Greybull, this one with a strangely painted registration. It looks much more like N22165 than the correct N2216S.

In reasonably intact condition, less engines, the future for ex-US Navy BuN 148346 looked bleak in 2006. But I suspect that it still might be extant in 2018. Registration looks like N22165 instead of N2216S