SALT LAKE CITY - 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 the ...
Hawkins & Powers got one of its P2V-7s into the air, briefly, in 2004. But that May, the government terminated the contract it had for all 33 air tankers after concerns were raised with the planes' ...
Neptune's Korean War-era submarine chasers make up half the U.S. Forest Service's heavy air tanker fleet nationwide, and it's lost two of them in the past eight months. There are just three companies ...