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Description
| Manufacturer: | Lockheed | |
| Base model: | P2V | |
| Designation: | P2V | |
| Version: | -3C | |
| Nickname: | Neptune | |
| Designation System: | U.S. Navy / Marines | |
| Designation Period: | 1923-1962 | |
| Basic role: | Patrol | |
| Modified Mission: | Reinforced for catapulting/Carrier landing | |
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Specifications
| Length: | 77' 10" | 23.7 m | |
| Height: | 28' 1" | 8.5 m | |
| Wingspan: | 100' | 30.4 m | |
| Wingarea: | 1,000.0 sq ft | 92.8 sq m | |
| Empty Weight: | 33,962 lb | 15,402 kg | |
| Gross Weight: | 54,000 lb | 24,489 kg | |
| Max Weight: | 63,078 lb | 28,606 kg | |
Propulsion
| No. of Engines: | 2 | ||
| Powerplant: | Wright R-3350-26W | ||
| Horsepower (each): | 3200 | ||
Performance
Recent comments by our visitors
| Chuck Huber St. Augustine, FL | Kenneth Wooster has added another webpage about the P2V-3C "tailhook" Neptunes at http://skaneateles.org/navy/neptunes.html
Wooster's HATWING website is http://web.cortland.edu/wooster/navy01.html 04/24/2004 @ 14:54 [ref: 7281] |
| Chuck Huber , FL | All twelve P2V-3C Neptune versions were the first USN aircraft carrier-launchable atom bombers in the early Cold War days, in USN Heavy Attack Composite Squadron VC-5.
Once the AJ-1/2 Savage aircraft became operational in VC squadrons VC-5,6,7,8 and 9, the P2V-3C Neptunes were modified and re-designated P2V-3B by installing the AN/ASB-1a Bomb Director System (which was in the AJ Savages, and later in the A3D Skywarriors of Heavy Attack Squadrons designated VAH). The P2V-3B aircraft went to Heavy Attack Training Units (HATU) for in-flight crew training with and AN/ASB-1a system. The P2V-3C aircraft had tailhooks and while no aircraft carrier landings were accomplished, such arrested landings (traps) were done at NAS Patuxent River, and at small airfields in the Mediterranean area on special missions, staging from NAS Port Lyautey, FM in the early 1950's. Please see: P2V-3B and P2V-3C NEPTUNES http://community.webtv.net/cerebralhush/USNavyHeavyAttack/page3.html P2V NEPTUNES ASSIGNED TO VC SQUADRONS http://community.webtv.net/cerebralhush/USNavyHeavyAttack/page5.html 04/16/2004 @ 10:28 [ref: 7225] |
| Jack L. Bell Brooklet, GA |
Our squadron (Composite Squadron Five VC-5)was the first to fly the "Peter Two Victor Three Charlies" built for the Navy.There was even one rigged with a tailhook (NB41).Our skipper (then) Capt. John T. Hayward,made more than a few successful "traps" on the simulated carrier deck at N.A.S. "P" River, Maryland. Later in the testing though, one of our aviators dropped in in from about seventy five feet and drooped the engines. In addition, the airfrane was so badly damaged she never flew again.This a/c made many deck launched takeoffs from the Midway class carriers with- out incidence. She even holds the distance record for a deck launched aircraft. 04/14/2001 @ 11:00 [ref: 2071] |
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