Little planes buzz. Big jets whoosh. But Missoula’s skies will soon lose the rumble that signified a P2V coming back from a wildfire. “When I land at some random airport in Kansas, they flip out when ...

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 ...

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 ...

On this day in aviation history, 80 years ago-May 17, 1945-the Lockheed P-2 Neptune took to the skies for its first flight. Designed as a maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare (ASW) aircraft, the ...

Members of VP-5 took time to honor their maritime patrol and reconnaissance legacy Jan. 17 by washing the P-2V Neptune on display in NAS Jacksonville's Heritage Park. Through teamwork and initiative, ...

Neptune Aviation Tanker 11 was dropping a load of retardant on the leading edge of the White Rock fire in Utah on Sunday afternoon when one wing apparently hit a tree and the Lockheed P2V cartwheeled ...

MISSOULA, Mont. - A Missoula based air tanker company is flying again after grounding its fleet. Neptune Aviation said it voluntarily grounded its planes after a tanker crashed on a fire supression ...

(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 ...

In the early evening of Sept. 29, 1946, a P2V Neptune patrol plane rumbled down a runway in Perth, Australia, her crew monitoring the aircraft’s speed until it reached 87 knots at which time Cmdr.