The focus on the safety of firefighting aircraft has resulted in an airworthiness directive (AD) on Lockheed's 1940s-vintage P2V Neptune, a Navy patrol aircraft that has been converted to fire-bombing ...

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. “As a company, we’re dealing with the loss, but as ...