In 1950, Air & Space Magazine reported that the P2V-3C was the largest aircraft ever deployed from an aircraft carrier. In the same year, the P2V-5 Neptune was also one of the first operational ...

The Lockheed P2V Neptune entered service with the United States Navy in 1947, first making the headlines as the Navy’s first purpose-built, land-based anti-submarine patrol aircraft.

But Missoula’s skies will soon lose the rumble that signified a P2V coming back from a wildfire. ... It was engineered to fly off aircraft carriers, although it couldn’t land on one.

Neptune P2V-C3 maritime patrol planes converted into nuclear bombers could take off from Midway-class carriers ... Carriers with these aircraft were far more flexible than a CVA-58 full of B-36 ...