In theory, vehicles of any kind can run indefinitely as long as people are willing to maintain them. Unfortunately, budget and manpower can be limited in the U.S. military, so fleet modernization is ...

The year 2017 portends big changes at Neptune Aviation as the Missoula-based company prepares to phase out its propeller-driven P2V planes and to compete for a new U.S. Forest Service firefighting ...

A P2V Neptune air tanker drops retardant on a wildfire southwest of Elko, Nevada, in 2006. An air tanker dropping retardant on a remote wildfire along the Utah-Nevada line crashed Sunday. The pilots ...

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 ...

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 ...