In its role as a retardant bomber, the P2V moves about 20,000 pounds of liquid payload at 150 mph. It requires two auxiliary jet engines to add enough oomph for take-off and mountain maneuvering.

National Naval Aviation Museum notes that the P2V-1 Neptune was the first plane to fly nonstop without refueling from Perth, Australia, to Columbus, Ohio, covering a distance of 11,235 miles, in ...

The Lockheed P2V-7 Neptune A89-280 now stands proudly at the entrance to RAAF Base Townsville, a testament to the skill and commitment of those who restored it and a tribute to its historical ...

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 ...

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.

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.

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Chinese scientists are experimenting with GX_P2V, a mutant Covid-19 strain that has a 100% kill streak in mice with human proteins. Most eerie of all, the mice's eyes turned completely white the ...

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 ...

The only Atlantic Hurricane Hunter flight to go down occurred on September 26, 1955. Snowcloud Five, a U.S. Navy P2V Neptune weather reconnaissance airplane flying out of Guantanamo, Cuba, was ...

The two big propeller engines have 18 cylinders apiece, fired by 72 spark plugs. TOMMY MARTINO, ... Dale Dahl, one of the last Neptune P2V pilots, stands in front of Tanker 05.