When it first flew in 1945, the Lockheed P2V Neptune was designed for long-range, maritime patrol, and anti-submarine warfare.

Neptune Aviation is retiring seven Lockheed P2V air tankers Saturday September 30th.

A Lockheed P2V-2 Neptune of patrol squadron VP-18 Flying Phantoms in flight over NAS Jacksonville (Florida, USA) on 3 July 1953. VP-18 had only been established on 04 Feb 1953.

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.

Neptune Aviation employees move Tanker 10, a retired P2V firefighting aircraft, across a roadway toward its new permanent home at the entrance to Missoula International Airport on Tuesday. The ...

MISSOULA — Red lightning will hit the blue skies over Montana next week as Neptune Aviation puts its latest firefighting air tanker into service.

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 ...

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 ...