Warplanes of the USA: Wyoming, Grey Bull Museum of Flight and Aerial Firefighting

Grey Bull  Museum of Flight and Aerial Firefighting, 2534 Hiller Lane, Greybull, WY  82426.  On Hwy 14.

(Martin McGuire Photo)

Beechcraft UC-45F Expeditor (Serial No. 44-87201), C/N 8460, Reg. No. N7391C, smoke jumper.

Boeing KC-97L Stratotanker (Serial No.), Reg. No. N29666.

(Martin McGuire Photos)

(Author Photo)

Consolidated Vultee PB4Y-2 Super Privateer (BuNo. 58882), Tanker 126, Reg No. N7962C, 1944.  This aircraft is owned by Bob J. Hawkins.

Fairchild C-82A Packet (Serial No. 44-23027), C/N 10071, Reg. No. N8009A.  “Flying B”, fuselage only.

(Martin McGuire Photos)

(Author Photo)

(Tomas Del Coro Photos)

(Mr Satterly Photo, 21 August 2017)

Fairchild C-119F Flying Boxcar RCAF (Serial No. 22106), c/n 10773, Tanker 06, Reg. No. N5215R.  Cockpit preserved, wreckage, to Battle Mountain, Nevada in 1995.

Hawkins 1928 Monocoupe 70 (Serial No. 108H), Reg. No. N14169.

Hughes 369D Helicopter (Serial No. 610984D), Reg. No. 5013P.  1981.

Lockheed C-130A Hercules (Serial No.), Reg. No. N4172Q.

(Author Photo)

Lockheed C-130A Hercules (Serial No. 57-0511), C/N 182-3218, Reg. No. N134HP.  RI ANG.  Pride Capital Group, Deerfield, Illinois.

Lockheed C-130A Hercules, camouflaged.

Wyoming Warplanes that flew from Grey Bull, dispersed to other museums and operators

In 2005 Hawkins and Powers Aviation, Grey Bull, went into liquidation.  Many of the aircraft are now registered with the Pride Capital Group, Deerfield, Illinois.  This list approximately covers aircraft that were sold at auction or have been dispersed from Greybull.

Boeing KC-97L Stratotanker (Serial No. 53-0208), C/N 16990, Reg. No. N397HP.  Arizona ANG.  Pride Capital Group, Deerfield, Illinois.  Owned by Howard Sheppard, 2006.

Boeing KC-97L Stratotanker (Serial No. 53-0265), C/N 17047, Reg. No. N497HP.  Pride Capital Group, Deerfield, Illinois.  Owned by Howard Sheppard, 2006.

Boeing KC-97L Stratotanker (Serial No. 53-0317), Reg. No. 971HP.

Boeing KC-97L Stratotanker (Serial No. 53-0350), C/N 17132, Reg. No. N972HP.  Owned by Clay Lacy.

Boeing KC-97L Stratotanker (Serial No. 52-0918), C/N 16612, Reg. No. N97HP.  Pride Capital Group, Deerfield, Illinois.  Owned by Howard Sheppard, Riverton, Wyoming.

Boeing KC-97L Stratotanker (Serial No. 52-2698), C/N 22698, Reg. No. N1365N.  Pride Capital Group, Deerfield, Illinois.  Owned by Clay Lacy.  Nov 2008.

Boeing KC-97L Stratotanker (Serial No. 52-2761), C/N 16792, Reg. No. N29862.  AZ ANG.  Pride Capital Group, Deerfield, Illinois.  Owned by Clay Lacy.  Nov 2008.

Boeing KC-97L Stratotanker (Serial No. 52-2695), C/N 16726, Reg. No. N29866.  This aircraft is fitted with the fin of (Serial No. 32-2680).  AZ ANG.  Pride Capital Group, Deerfield, Illinois.

Boeing KC-97L Stratotanker (Serial No. 53-0218), C/N 17000, Reg. No. N97KC.  This aircraft was flown to Minneapolis/St. Paul in Nov 2000 and is now on display in the Minnesota Air Guard Museum.

(Author Photo)

Consolidated PBY-5A Catalina (Serial No.), C/N A427, Reg. No. N314CF.  This aircraft is now Reg. No. N206M, with Black Cat Aviation in Indianapolis, Indiana as of July 2008.

(USN Photo)

Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer.

(USN Photo)

Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer.

(USN Photo)

Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer photographed at Naval Air Station Patuxent River, Maryland, July 1944.

(Martin McGuire Photos)

(Bill Gabbert Photo)

(Greg Goebel Photo)

Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer (BuNo. 59701), Tanker 127, Reg. No. N6884C.

(NMNA Photo)

Consolidated PB4Y-2 Super Privateer (BuNo. 66261), 13.  It was accepted by the U.S. Navy on 14 Sep 1945 and almost immediately placed in long term storage at Naval Air Facility Litchfield Park, Arizona. it was returned to service in 1952 and redesignated a P4Y-2G.  The aircraft was assigned to the U.S. Coast Guard, initially operating with the Coast Guard Air Detachments at Midway Islands until transferred to the Coast Guard Air Detachment at Naval Air Station Barbers Point, Hawaii, in 1953.  From 1957 it was assigned to the Coast Guard Air Station San Francisco, California.  It was sold and served on the ground to be used for spare parts to support other Privateers flying as aerial tankers to fight forest fires.  In the early 1980s Hawkins and Powers Aviation of Greybull, Wyoming, decided to return the aircraft to flying condition and made the decision to donate it to the then Naval Aviation Museum, where it arrived in 1983.

(Author Photo)

Consolidated PB4Y-2 Super Privateer (BuNo. 66300), Tanker 124, Reg. No. N2872G.  Sold at auction.  This aircraft was ferried to the Yanks Air Museum in California in November 2008.

Consolidated PB4Y-2 Super Privateer (BuNo. 66302), Tanker 121, Reg. No. N2871G.  Sold at auction, Aug 2006.

Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer (BuNo. 66260), Reg. No. N7620C.  Tanker No. 123 was destroyed in a crash while fighting forest fires in Colorado on 19 July 2002.

Douglas B-18A Bolo (Serial No. 37-029), R38, Reg. No. N52056.  This aircraft went to the Castle Air Museum, Atwater, California, in 1979.

(Author Photo)

Douglas A-26C Invader (Serial No. 44-34520), BC-520, C/N 27799, Reg. No. N126HP.  This aircraft is painted as a USAF aircraft on the port side and as an H & P aircraft on the starboard side, Tanker No. 28, ``Lu Lu``.  This aircraft is now owned by the Lauridsen Aviation Museum, Glendale, Arizona where it was flown to in July 2007.

Douglas C-54G Skymaster (Serial No. 35934), Reg. No N90203.  Pride Capital Group, Deerfield, Illinois.

Douglas C-118A Liftmaster (Serial No. 53-3291), 629, C/N 44662, Reg. No. N51599.

Douglas C-118A Liftmaster (BuNo. 152689), Tanker 689, C/N 44661/628, Reg. No. N233HP.  Owned by Everts Air Fuel.  Flown out Oct 2007.

Douglas C-118A Liftmaster (BuNo. 44662), Reg. No. N51599.  Sold to Everts Air Fuel, stored at Fairbanks, Alaska in 2007.

Fairchild C-82A Packet (Serial No. 45-57782), C/N 10152, Reg. No. N5102B.  Sold at auction for parts, now with the Hagerstown Aviation Museum, Maryland.

(Author Photo)

Fairchild C-82A Packet (Serial No. 45-57814), C/N 10184, Reg. No. N9701F.  Pride Capital Group, Deerfield, Illinois.  Flown to Hagerstown, Maryland in October 2006, now with the Hagerstown Aviation Museum.

Fairchild C-119G Flying Boxcar (Serial No. 10678), RCAF (Serial No. 22103), Reg. No. N8092.  This aircraft went to the National Warplane Museum, Geneseo, New York in 1990.

Fairchild C-119G-3E Flying Boxcar (Serial No. 10737), RCAF (Serial No. 22106), Reg. No. N3003.  Tanker 03.  Pride Capital Group, Deerfield, Illinois.

Fairchild C-119F Flying Boxcar (Serial No. 10773), Tanker 06, RCAF (Serial No. 10773), Reg. No. N5215R.  Cockpit preserved, wreckage, to Battle Mountain, Nevada in 1995.

(Author Photo)

Fairchild C-119G Flying Boxcar (Serial No. 10776), Tanker 140, RCAF (Serial No. 22111), Reg. No. N8093.  Turbojet on top.  Pride Capital Group, Deerfield, Illinois.  This aircraft was ferried to the Hagerstown Aviation Museum, Maryland in Nov 2008.

 (Martin McGuire Photos)

(Author Photo)

(Bill Gabbert Photo)

(Tomas Del Coro Photo)

Fairchild C-119G Flying Boxcar (Serial No. 10824), RCAF (Serial No. 22113), C/N 10956, Reg. No. N3935.  Previously 139 with turbojet, now Tanker 136, Reg. No. N5216R.  Sold at auction Aug 2006.

Fairchild C-119F Flying Boxcar, RCAF(Serial No. 22122), 22, C/N 10906, RCAF colours, Reg. No. N8091.  This aircraft went to the March AFB Museum, California in 1988.

Fairchild C-119G-3E Flying Boxcar (Serial No. 10955), RCAF (Serial No. 22130), Reg. No. N15501.  Pride Capital Group, Deerfield, Illinois.  This aircraft was used in the re-make of the film “Flight of the Phoenix”.  It was flown to the Lauridsen Aviation Museum, Glendale, Arizona in Jul 2006.

Fairchild C-119G Flying Boxcar (Serial No. 10994), RCAF (Serial No. 22135), C/N 10994, Reg. No. N8094.  135.  Pride Capital Group, Deerfield, Illinois.

Fairchild C-119F Flying Boxcar (Serial No. 131708), Reg. No. N7051U.

Fairchild C-119F Flying Boxcar (Serial No. 53-8076), C/N 179, Reg. No. N8505A.  Pride Capital Group, Deerfield, Illinois.  Owned by Harold Sheppard.

Fairchild C-119L Flying Boxcar (Serial No. 53-8150), C/N 20144, Reg. No. N37636, “Georgia Box”.  Tanker 150.  CA ANG.  Pride Capital Group, Deerfield, Illinois.  Owned by Harold Sheppard.

Fairchild C-119F Flying Boxcar (Serial No. 53-8154), C/N 257, Reg. No. N90267.  Sold to Ed Rachanski in 2006, moved to Nevada.

Fairchild C-123K Provider (Serial No. 54-0695), C/N 20144, Reg. No. N8190B.  Donated to the Mid America Transportation and Aviation Museum, Sioux City, Indiana and flown out on 15 Aug 2007.

Lockheed L-18 Lodestar (Serial No. 6124), Reg. No. N880V.  This aircraft was delivered to the RAF as an L-414 Hudson on 6 Dec 1941, converted to L 18-56 Lodestar in Dec 1955.  As of 2006, Reg. No. N41CW, Ironworker Inc, Chino, California.

Lockheed SP-2H Neptune (BuNo. 135588), C/N 726-7035, Reg. No. N125HP.    Pride Capital Group, Deerfield, Illinois.  Owned by Harold Sheppard, Riverton, Wyoming.

Lockheed P2V-7 Neptune (BuNo. 140154), C/N 726-7067, Reg. No. N8056D.  Pride Capital Group, Deerfield, Illinois.  Owned by Harold Sheppard, Riverton, Wyoming.

(Author Photo)

Lockheed P-2H Neptune (BuNo. 140441), C/N 726-7100, Reg. No. N8908F.  Pride Capital Group, Deerfield, Illinois.  Possibly scrapped in 2006.

(Author Photo)

Lockheed P2V-7 Neptune (BuNo. 140443), Reg. No. N140HP.  Tanker 140.  Pride Capital Group, Deerfield, Illinois.  Sold to Neptune Inc, Reg. No. N445NA, Apr 2006.

Lockheed P2V-7 Neptune (BuNo. 140972), C/N 726-7074, Reg. No. N128HP.  Pride Capital Group, Deerfield, Illinois.  Owned by Neptune Aviation Services, Missoula, Montana, Jan 2007.

Lockheed P2V-7 Neptune (BuNo. 143173), C/N 726-7129, Reg. No. N173AM.  Pride Capital Group, Deerfield, Illinois.  Owned by Richard C. Camp, Burke, Virginia.  Possibly scrapped before Nov 2008.

Lockheed SP-2H Neptune (BuNo. 145905), C/N 726-7167, Reg. No. N7060Y.  Pride Capital Group, Deerfield, Illinois.  Possibly scrapped 2008.

(Author Photo)

(RuthAS Photo, 19 Sep 1999)

Lockheed SP-2H Neptune (BuNo. 145906), Tanker 139, C/N 726-7168, Reg. No. N139HP.  Pride Capital Group, Deerfield, Illinois.  Sold to Neptune Aviation, Feb 2006, now Tanker No. 43.

Lockheed SP-2H Neptune (BuNo. 147950), C/N 726-7200, Reg. No. N129HP.  Pride Capital Group, Deerfield, Illinois.  Possibly scrapped before 2006.

Lockheed P2V-7 Neptune (BuNo. 148338), Reg. No. N138HP.  Pride Capital Group, Deerfield, Illinois.

Lockheed P2V-7 Neptune (BuNo. 148341), C/N 726-7226, Reg. No. N122HP.  Pride Capital Group, Deerfield, Illinois.  Owned by Neptune Aviation Services, Missoula, Montana, Jan 2007.

Lockheed P2V-7 Neptune (BuNo. 148346), C/N 726-7231, Reg. No. N2216S.  Pride Capital Group, Deerfield, Illinois.  Owned by Neptune Aviation Services, Missoula, Montana.  Jan 2007.

Lockheed P2V-7 Neptune (BuNo. 148355), C/N 726-7243, Reg. No. N2218A.  Pride Capital Group, Deerfield, Illinois.  Possibly scrapped.

Lockheed P2V-7 Neptune (BuNo. 148356), C/N 726-7246, Reg. No. N2218E.  Pride Capital Group, Deerfield, Illinois.  Owned by Neptune Aviation Services, Missoula, Montana.  Nov 2008.

Lockheed P2V-7 Neptune (BuNo. 148359), C/N 726-7255, Reg. No. N2218Q.  Pride Capital Group, Deerfield, Illinois.  Owned by Neptune Aviation Services, Missoula, Montana.  Nov 2008.

Lockheed C-130A Hercules (Serial No. 57-0459), C/N 182-3166, Reg. No. N135HP.  Pride Capital Group, Deerfield, Illinois.

(Author Photo)

Lockheed C-130A Hercules (Serial No. 57-0482), C/N 182-3189, Reg. No. N133HP.  Tanker 133.  Pride Capital Group, Deerfield, Illinois.  This aircraft is now flying with International Air Response, Coolidge, Arizona.

Lockheed C-130A Hercules (Serial No. 57-0513), C/N 182-3220, Reg. No. N8230H.

Lockheed C-130A Hercules (Serial No. 56-0507), C/N 182-3115, Reg. No. N132HP.  Pride Capital Group, Deerfield, Illinois.

Lockheed C-130A Hercules (Serial No. 56-0534), C/N 182-3142, Reg. No. N131HP.  Tanker 131.  Pride Capital Group, Deerfield, Illinois.  This aircraft is now flying with International Air Response, Coolidge, Arizona.

Lockheed C-130A Hercules (Serial No. 56-0535), C/N 1A-3143, Reg. No. N133FF.  Pride Capital Group, Deerfield, Illinois.  Owned by D & D Enterprises.  Sep 2006.

Lockheed C-130A Hercules (Serial No. 56-0538), Reg. No. N130HP.  This aircraft was destroyed in a crash while fighting forest fires in California on 17 June 2002.

Lockheed C-130A Hercules (Serial No. 57-0511), C/N 182-3218, Reg. No. N134HP.  RI ANG.  Pride Capital Group, Deerfield, Illinois.

Lockheed P-3A Orion (BuNo. 150510), P3-05, 22-24, C/N 185-5036, Ex-Spanish Air Force.  Reg. No. N017AU, as of Oct 2004 with Aero Union, Chico, California.

Lockheed EP-3A Orion (BuNo. 150529), C/N 185-5055.  Sold for parts.

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