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Seaplanes were increasingly being displaced by land-based patrol bombers, such as the four-engine Consolidated Privateer P4Y-2/2S/2B, a holdover from WW II; and versions of the new twin-engine Lockheed Neptune (P2V2/3/3W/4/5), successor to the post-WWII PV-2 Harpoon patrol bomber. Sent into receivership by the Great Depression, then purchased and revived by a partnership headed by an aviation enthusiast and investment broker, Lockheed put out new, smaller airliners, the Electra and Super Electra, then pushed its employment to 17,000 in 1940 with a contract to build Hudson patrol bombers for Great Britain. The plane was turned over to the Royal Air Force and served in the Pacific until the end of the war, when it was abandoned in India and served as a patrol bomber there, said Phil Haskell, a flight engineer. |
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