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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Those pilots were Todd Tompkins, 48, and Ronnie Edwin Chambless, 40, both of Boise, Idaho. The men were flying Neptune P2V Tanker 11 when it crashed on June 3 during a retardant drop on the White Rock ...

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 ...