It's a memeber of the family so to speak.
My father owns it. The aircraft was an ex sprayer like the majority of surviing PV-2s. About 20 years ago the aircraft was flown from Aero Trader's Borrego Springs property by Tony Ritzman and Bill Muszala to our home base at Eagle Field. It sat for a number of years until we decided to dispose of the nasty spray tank and spray equipment. It had a pretty elaborate spray setup that consited of wet spray booms on the trailing edge of the wing and then a dry hopper in the center section that would dump out the bombay and these big pipes that went through the leading edge of the wing. It was pretty nasty and took a lot of cleanup. After the equipment was removed and it was cleaned and aired out we brought it in the hangar and were going to do some restoration work on it. After about a year of building wiring harnesses and some other such things we ran into some environmental concerns at our airport (it was an ex Army Air Crops base that was later used as a crop dusting field). The cleanup ended up being very expensive which pretty much ate up any extra funding to do restoration. At that point we decided that preserving the airfield was our top priority so we have concentrated on that and have put the bomber aside until it makes financial sense to revisit it.
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