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British Aerospace BAe-146-200 (N473NA) - Neptune Aviation Services BAe 146-200 Tanker 01, with speed brakes deployed on a down hill run... follows lead plane to make a critical forward rate of spread retardant drop on the threatening June Fire, June Lake CA., late afternoon 9-16-14.br /br /Neptune Aviation Services is located in Missoula, Montana. NAS fleet includes 7 modern BAe 146-200 aircraft(converted British Aerospace BAe 146-200, passenger carrier regional airliner), including Tankers 41, 40, 12, 10, 03, 02, 01 and are equipped with the innovative REV 3 tank capable of delivering a payload of 3,050 gallons of fire retardant.
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British Aerospace BAe-146-200 (N473NA)

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Neptune Aviation Services BAe 146-200 Tanker 01, with speed brakes deployed on a down hill run... follows lead plane to make a critical forward rate of spread retardant drop on the threatening June Fire, June Lake CA., late afternoon 9-16-14.

Neptune Aviation Services is located in Missoula, Montana. NAS fleet includes 7 modern BAe 146-200 aircraft(converted British Aerospace BAe 146-200, passenger carrier regional airliner), including Tankers 41, 40, 12, 10, 03, 02, 01 and are equipped with the innovative REV 3 tank capable of delivering a payload of 3,050 gallons of fire retardant.

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STEVE SIMPSON
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Patrick Sawyer
This guy was one of two 146 fire tankers that were rolling overhead like clockwork a few weeks ago in Sacramento, CA. They were staging out of KMCC alongside a P2V and Tanker 912 while working the King Fire. MAJOR thanks and kudos to them for their hard work!!!
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Art Troutman
Whoops! The "Neptune' designation does not go with the Bae 146 - but rather to the former US Navy P2V Neptune, as mentioned in Patrick Sawyers' Comment. The P2V-7 version - the last one built by Lockheed Aircraft - is a US Navy antisubmarine aircraft, fitted with a pair of Wright R3350 turbo-compound recip engines, supplemented by a pair of J33 jet engines, resulting in superb maneuvering for making precision air drops! The Bae 146 airliner, fitted with 4 jet engines, should also be ideal in making those air drops!
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Lee Kovarik
@Art Troutman- But surely there can be such a thing as a company called Neptune Aviation Services, regardless of what they fly, which is what the poster is positing.
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STEVE SIMPSONPhoto Uploader
Neptune Aviation Services is located in Missoula, Montana. NAS fleet includes 5 modern BAe 146 aircraft(converted British Aerospace BAe 146, purpose built civilian short haul regional airliner), including Tankers 41, 40, 10, 02, 01 and are equipped with the innovative REV 3 tank capable of delivering a payload of 3,050 gallons of fire retardant.

Neptune Aviation services also operates 6 P2V "Neptune" airtankers, and are expected to convert more Avro RJ/BAe 146 aircraft in the near future. These new aircraft will replace the aging P2V "Neptunes".
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