The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) recently unveiled the newly restored Lockheed P2V-7 Neptune A89-280, which has served as a gate guardian at RAAF Base Townsville, Queensland, since 2012. This ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

One of the last Lockheed P2V air tankers, a plane originally designed to carry the Navy's nuclear weapons, has been helping fight fires in Montana and all over the United States. Neptune Aviation will ...

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 ...

An air tanker that had been used to drop retardant on one wildfire in the Sierra Nevada crashed after taking off for a flight to a second blaze, killing all three crew members. The order for the ...

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