On this day in aviation history, 80 years ago-May 17, 1945-the Lockheed P-2 Neptune took to the skies for its first flight. Designed as a maritime patrol and anti-submarine warfare (ASW) aircraft, the ...
For over half a century, an aging aircraft has stood watch at an entrance to what is now Brunswick Landing — but may soon redeploy, crowded out by development in the business campus. The Lockheed P-2 ...
MISSOULA, Mont. -- Another chapter in aviation history came to an end this past weekend as Neptune Aviation retired the last of their P-2 Neptune firefighting air tankers. “Today is an ending of an ...