Bill Gabbert of Wildfire Today reported yesterday that Neptune Aviation is going to acquire 11 more BAe-146 aircraft for conversion to tankers and is planning to retire all the P2V from fire fighting by 2021. Bill has included a copy of Neptune's press release announcing same in his article.
Michael Archer of the Firebomber Publications Blog included an article reporting on Neptune's plans to acquire additional BAe-146 jet aircraft on April 21.
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