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 ...

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 ...

(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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.