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 ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

A Lockheed P2V crashed into a hillside, destroying the aircraft and killing both ATP-rated pilots during a cross-country positioning flight. The VFR flight plan was filed, but the accident occurred in ...

Members of a Navy recovery team examine the wreckage of LA-9, a Navy P2V Neptune aircraft that crashed onto a Greenland glacier in 1962, Aug. 9, 2004. The Navy is currently conducting recovery ...

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 ...