International Operations

For the last 40 years, the Bambi Bucket has been a popular aerial firefighting tool used to drop water or...

History Starting as an aircraft engineer with Australia's Ansett Airlines in the mid-1970s, John McDermott could not have imagined that...

New non-profit will inform policymakers and legislators about the important issues concerning aerial wildland firefighting  Washington, DC, 16 February 2023 –...

Coulson's Tanker 139, registered as N619SW, has crashed while fighting fires in Western Australia. Tanker 139 was in Australia for...

China's AG600 amphibious aircraft has entered the flight-test phase to obtain an airworthiness certification, according to the Aviation Industry Corporation...

Aurora, Oregon: JANUARY 30, 2023 – Columbia Helicopters, the world’s leading heavy-lift helicopter OEM, MRO, and operator, announced today it sold...

Bozeman, Montana-based Bridger Aerospace, one of the nation’s largest privately held aerial firefighting companies that supports front-line firefighters on the...

BOZEMAN, Mont. and NEW YORK, Jan. 24, 2023 Bridger Aerospace Group Holdings, LLC (“Bridger” or “Bridger Aerospace”), a leading independent...

Sikorsky delivered its 5,000th “Hawk” variant helicopter on January 20th 2023, a U.S. Army UH-60M Black Hawk. The iconic aircraft...

Next summer, the European Union will have double the capacity of aerial means of fighting fires compared to last year,...