Reno Wrap-up

What was hot—and what was not—at the 2009 National Championship Air Races.

  • By Linda Shiner
  • AirSpaceMag.com, September 28, 2009
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Dave Hansen’s 1945 Lockheed PV-2 was headed for the Aleutians in World War II but arrived late enough to miss the long bombing runs to the Japanese Kurile Islands.

Caroline Sheen


Dave Hansen’s 1945 Lockheed PV-2 was headed for the Aleutians in World War II but arrived late enough to miss the long bombing runs to the Japanese Kurile Islands. In its postwar career as a cropduster and –sprayer, its gun turret was superfluous, and had been removed. Hansen found and installed a turret, the same type used on Consolidated B-24s.


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