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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-14/15/18 / B-34 / C-56 C-60 / PV / R5O
    Latest Model:PV-2D Harpoon
    Last Military Serial:84062 USN
    Construction Number:15-0606
    Last Civil Registration:N6657D
    Latest Owner or Location:Stockton Field Aviation Museum, Stockton, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    1945

    Constructed as a PV-2D.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 84062.

    From February 1946 to By 1957

    To NAS Litchfield Park, AZ.
    Withdrawn from use and placed in storage.

    1957

    Assigned civil registration: N9989Z

    11 August 1957

    To Trade Ayer Inc, Linden, NJ with new c/r N6657D.

    9 February 1960

    To D. U. Howard, San Antonio, TX keeping c/r N6657D.

    May 1961

    Converted to a fire tanker with the installation of a fibreglass belly tank.

    8 June 1961

    To Allied Aircraft Sales keeping c/r N6657D.

    From 9 June 1961 to By 1972

    To Wenairco Inc, Wenatchee, WA keeping c/r N6657D.

    14 July 1961

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR6657D (PV-2, 151606) issued.

    Operated as fire service #F37.

    From 1974 to By 1979

    To Central Air Service/William A. Dempsey, East Wenatchee, WA keeping c/r N6657D.

    1975


    Photographer: Milo Peltzer
    Notes: Harpoon N6657D in Central Air Services paintwork, Missoula MT 1975

    Operated as fire service #101.

    From 26 February 1979 to By 1981

    To Kinney Air Tankers/Bruce Kinney, Richey, MT keeping c/r N6657D.

    Operated as fire service #101.

    From 1981 to By 1985

    To Custom FARM Service, Montana/S. I. Verschoot, Richey, MT keeping c/r N6657D.

    1 July 1985

    To Dennis Hill, Richey, MT keeping c/r N6657D.

    30 September 1985

    To Dawson Aviation/Bruce Kinney, Richey, MT keeping c/r N6657D.

    Spraybars installed for grasshopper spraying.

    From November 1985 to By 1986

    To Teskes Aviation/Eugene Teske, Twin Falls, ID keeping c/r N6657D.

    Operated as fire service #101.
    Utilized for a fire bombing contract and was based in Pennsylvannia.

    From November 1986 to By 1988

    To Albert L. Hoover, Twin Falls, ID keeping c/r N6657D.

    From 24 August 1988 to By 2001

    To Quarry Products Inc, Richmond, CA keeping c/r N6657D.

    From By 1990 to By 1994

    Withdrawn from used and placed in storage at Hazelton, PA.

    14 July 1994

    Ferry flight. Delivered to Ralph Johnson J Ranch, Middletown, CA.

    By 1994

    Placed in open storage at the ranch. Still marked as tanker 101.

    19 October 1999

    To Quarry Products Inc, Richmond, CA keeping c/r N6657D.

    2 April 2001

    To Clifford R. Everts, Fairbanks, AK keeping c/r N6657D.
    The aircraft was not moved from the Middletown ranch and instead remained on site.

    30 December 2008

    To Everts Air Fuel Inc, Fairbanks, AK keeping c/r N6657D.
    Still not moved out of Middleton, staying in place on the ranch.

    Based at Everts, Fairbanks, AK.
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    Circa 1 April 2010

    To Taigh Ramey, Stockton, CA keeping c/r N6657D.
    Not immediately relocated from the ranch.

    From 1 April 2010 to October 2010

    Prepared for a ferry flight from the ranch at Middletown, CA, to Stockton, CA.

    By 3 October 2010


    Photographer: Roger Cain
    Notes: Ferry flight from Johnson Ranch to Stockton Airport, CA.

    Circa 6 October 2010

    Ferry flight. Delivered to Stockton Field Aviation Museum/Vintage Aircraft/Taigh Ramey, Stockton Metropolitan Airport, Stockton, CA.
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    10 February 2011

    Certificate of airworthiness for NL6657D (PV-2, 151606) issued.

    12 September 2012


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Reno Air Races at the Reno-Stead Airport, Nevada.

    12 September 2012


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Reno Air Races at the Reno-Stead Airport, Nevada.

    23 May 2013

    To Stockton Field Aviation Museum, Stockton, CA keeping c/r N6657D.

    11 September 2013


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Reno Air Races.

    1 January 2014

    Certificate of airworthiness for NR6657D (PV-2, 151606) issued.

    Circa 19 September 2015

    7 December 2015

    To Stockton Field Aviation Museum, Stockton, CA keeping c/r N6657D.

    19 March 2017


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at NAWS China Lake Airshow


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    Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall

    Internet Sources
    Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    AMCAR
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    American Aviation Historical Society
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher

    Individual Contributors
    Mike Henniger

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