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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Australia’s Cold War Guardian: The Legendary Neptune Patrol Bomber
Lockheed P2V Neptune [A89] During the Second World War, the Royal Air Force developed a radar equipped Hudson bomber to ...
The Missoula International Airport has a new gate guard. Early Tuesday morning, airport crews maneuvered a retired Lockheed P2V-7 Neptune aircraft, most recently used to fight fires around the country ...
Neptune Aviation’s fleet of P2V retardant bombers returned to the air Tuesday, after one of its planes crashed in Utah on Sunday, killing two pilots. “As a company, we’re dealing with the loss, but as ...
A gift from God was born to us on June 1, 1983, and flew into the arms of Jesus on September 1, 2008 during takeoff aboard a Neptune P2V-7 fire tanker 09 at Stead airport in Nevada; he and his fellow ...
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 ...
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