International Operations

10 Tanker Drops Record-Setting 12 Million Gallons of Retardant During the Busy Fire Season

Firefighting aircraft are a powerful tool for battling forest fires, especially during the record-breaking 2021 fire season that saw 73 fires burn over 3.2...

Novel Approach to Keep Firefighters Safe Ahead of Bushfire Season

The battle to prepare for this year's bushfire season is well underway with a critical program being used to keep firefighters safe. Helicopters have been deployed to...

Helitak Receives FAA Approved Model List Amendment for FT4500 Tank for Blackhawk

Australian company Helitak have received approval from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to include seven additional Sikorsky Black Hawk Type Certificates on the Helitak...

Turkey’s fire-fighting efforts: 3 planes, 39 helicopters

Minister of Agriculture and Forestry Bekir Pakdemirli has shared information about the vehicle inventory used in Turkey's fire-fighting efforts. Answering the Parliamentary question of Republican...

Prisoners top-up aerial bushfire defence

Prisoners from Karnet have volunteered to assist with the re-loading of water, fire retardants and foam into Department of Biodiversity, Conservation and Attractions (DBCA)...

Support continues year on from Bushfire Royal Commission

Tomorrow marks the one-year anniversary of the tabling in Parliament of the Royal Commission into National Natural Disaster Arrangements Report. The impacts of the Black...

Macedonia on Fire

The summer of 2021 proved to be one of the worst in decades, with wildfires devastating forests, houses and tourist areas in Turkey, Greece,...

Aerial Firefighting 2021 Estonia

As the global pandemic caused havoc with the European aerospace conference circuit for another year, Tangent Link, the company that hosts  Aerial Firefighting shows...

The Dash 8-400AT – Conair’s Next Gen Air Tanker

During the 2021 fire season, while Canada and the U.S. developed plans around having access to their combined resources, Mother Nature threw a curveball...

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