MISSOULA,Mont - Neptune Aviation is retiring seven Lockheed P2V air tankers Saturday September 30th. This is a historic day for these aircraft that have been around since the cold war. Sam Wagner ...
One of the last Lockheed P2V air tankers, a plane originally designed to carry the Navy's nuclear weapons, has been helping fight fires in Montana and all over the United States. Neptune Aviation will ...
The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) recently unveiled the newly restored Lockheed P2V-7 Neptune A89-280, which has served as a gate guardian at RAAF Base Townsville, Queensland, since 2012. This ...
Nine days after their retirement party in Missoula, Neptune Aviation’s P2V retardant bombers were called back into action for northern California’s wildfire rampage. “Typically the fire season would ...
(WJAR) — An old military plane was demolished Tuesday at a closed museum in Quonset. A Lockheed P2V Neptune was crushed and put in dumpsters. The 91 foot long post World War 2 Navy aircraft had been ...
US safety investigators are probing two separate P2V Neptune aerial firefighting tanker accidents on 3 June, both of which were involved in efforts to extinguish or contain wildfires. Shortly before ...
A P2V Neptune air tanker drops retardant on a wildfire southwest of Elko, Nevada, in 2006. An air tanker dropping retardant on a remote wildfire along the Utah-Nevada line crashed Sunday. The pilots ...
The only Atlantic Hurricane Hunter flight to go down occurred on September 26, 1955. Snowcloud Five, a U.S. Navy P2V Neptune weather reconnaissance airplane flying out of Guantanamo, Cuba, was lost in ...