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 ...

(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 ...

MINDEN, Nev. – The landing gear of Minden Air’s surviving Lockheed Neptune P2V air tanker were ordered inspected on Monday after a crash landing at Minden-Tahoe Airport on Sunday. U.S. Forest Service ...

During the Second World War, the Royal Air Force developed a radar equipped Hudson bomber to seek out German U-boats. These ...

SALT LAKE CITY (AP) -- Once a Cold War-era submarine attack plane, the Lockheed P2V has for years been both a mainstay of the nation's aerial firefighting arsenal and a cause for concern. Flying in ...

On the afternoon of June 3, an aging Lockheed Martin P2V air tanker crashed near the border of Nevada and Utah, killing the pilot and co-pilot. The same day, one landing gear on a P2V failed to deploy ...

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 ...

Job: Tactical Coordinator (TACCO) with a crew flying the P2V Neptune, a maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare aircraft built by Lockheed. The TACCO coordinated the activities of the crew ...

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 ...