P2V photo I.D. needed

[Nathan]

I was wondering if anyone can I.D. this photo? Markings, unit, etc?

[WallyB]

I'm going to take a WAG here: 126515 of FASRON 102 ?

[Nathan]

Thanks Wally. What model is it? I have several P2V slides I need to get converted. I want to guess and say this is a P2V-6 or -5F?

Last edited by Nathan on Wed Apr 27, 2011 9:28 am, edited 1 time in total.

[Nathan]

P.S. I believe this is a photo my uncle took during an airshow in the mid to late 50's.

[RNDMTRS4EVR]

I would say that it's a -5 model, or P-2E if you prefer.

Scott........

[WallyB]

126515 was a P2V-6 later -6F, but I'm only guessing that was it. Pretty definitely FA(sron) on the tail though.

[Nathan]

Gary wrote to me about this. Hope you don'y mind Gary!

Can you make out enough of BuNo with a magnifying glass to distinguish between 126515 and 131515, looks fairly clear in the scan. If 131515 (-5) would be a super rare shot as bird was shot down by MiG-15s!

Gary

That would be neat if this bird was 131515. But I found a roster for FASRON, and it shows a 515 being with FASRON 102.

[Nathan]

I just got a few leads.

this is from Baldur a P2V historian:

Nathan

I would strongly suggest 126515, as it is known to have had jet pods added, and is illustrated as such in Wayne Mutzas book. I have photos of a number of other P2V-6 Neptunes and none of those at least have the jet modification. I the rather sparse individual historical notes in appendix 11, there is a mention of one other so called P2V-6F, which was used on the P2V-5s with the jet mod. This is 126532. I have photos of it both with Glenview in 1960 and Willow Grove in 1957 and it is without the jets in both of these. Without any other information to substantiate the fact, I would strongly suggest the 126515 was the only P2V-6 to be modified this way.

Regarding Fasron 102, I have almost no information at all. It was a Fleet Air Service squadron based at Norfolk, Virginia and was disbanded in 1960.

Would there be any possibility of getting a larger scan of this photo? Also would you have any more Neptune photos that could help fill in the gaps in my Neptune project?

Best Wishes

Baldur Sveinsson
http://www.verslo.is/baldur
http://www.verslo.is/baldur/p2

Then I got a message from Col. Rohr:

Hi Nathan,

Here you go the plane is the following

P2V-6F, the squadron is FASRON 102 they were assigned to NAS Norfolks it end it's Navy career at NAS Brunswick assigned to VP-23 it was one of the last P2V that were in operational Squadrons.

Feel free to post this on Wixs

Rob

P.S. The photo was taken by my Uncle Don at Willow Run back in the late 50's.

[the330thbg]

I was wondering if anyone can I.D. this photo? Markings, unit, etc?

Looks definitely like a P2V to me!