K25 slide scan. Built 1957 as P2V-7 143173, later redesignated SP-2H. Retired to MASDC 1973. N173AM Allied Aircraft 1987, Hawkins and Powers N173AM 1991. Remained stored at Greybull ever since. Registration had been painted on starbord side only.

Former US Navy 143173 on display at the Museum of Flight and Aerial Firefighting compound

Among many numbers on the nose is the MASDC (now AMARC) code 1P334. Hawkins and Powers acquired the P-2 from there in July 1987 and it was registered with D&G as N173AM at the photo date, a registration linking to its BuNo 143173. The remains of '206' on the nose may be from the end of the sixties and ten years before that 143173 happened to be coded '7' with VP-21, a number now sprayed on the nose wheel door. [Fuji, Nikon, Konica-Minolta]

SP-2H ex BuAer 143173 and previously coded '25' of VP-67. Still wears 'Navy' and its serial under the tailplane. In storage awaiting tanker conversion.