From PB-1W To Aerial Surveying
Aero Service Corporation of Philadelphia, PA bought BuNo 77235 for $17,510.00 on October 1 of 1957. U.S. NAS North Island, California is listed on the C.A.A. Bill of Sale. She was civil registered as N7227C, classified as restricted by the F.A.A., and used as a high altitude aerial surveying platform.
At different times, N7227C had laser equipment, Doppler radar, a sensor pressure reference unit, blue spectrograph, Fairchild KC-4, T-11, and Wild RC-8 type 35mm cameras, a Bell and Howell 11Q strip camera, a gyroscopic camera mount, a magnetometer with a trailing cone probe, a Zenith photometer, and an airborne profile recorder probe in the nose installed. A large cargo door was installed on the port side of the aircraft, along with cargo flooring. Aero Service Corporation was bought by Western Geophysical, a company that specialized in using reflection seismology to explore for petroleum. Western Geophysical was later sold to Litton Industries. Even though it had changed owners twice, Aero Service Corporation, renamed ASC Inc., but still based in Philadelphia, sold N7227C to the Confederate Air Force on September 2, 1967.
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