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 ...

In theory, vehicles of any kind can run indefinitely as long as people are willing to maintain them. Unfortunately, budget and manpower can be limited in the U.S. military, so fleet modernization is ...

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 ...

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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 ...