Aerial Fire News

Wipaire, Inc. Welcomes Andrew San Giacomo

South Saint Paul, Minnesota—Wipaire, Inc.® has welcomed Andrew San Giacomo as Director of Aircraft Services with oversight of Wipaire’s wide range of services. Andrew...

Simplex Fire Attack™ System Destined to Become a Mainstay of the Aerial Firefighting Industry

Simplex Aerospace’s newest and largest Fire Attack™ System, the Model 347 for the CH-47, successfully fought its first fire in early May. Portland, OR—Simplex Aerospace’s...

Fred Fahey Aerial Services Flies World's First Constant Flow Electric Firegate

Fred Fahey Aerial Services, based in Cowra, New South Wales, Australia, has become the world’s first fire-fighting operator to fight fires with the all-electric...

Craig Jimenez joins Air Tractor Board of Directors

Air Tractor, the leading manufacturer of single-engine agriculture, firefighting and utility aircraft announced that Craig Jimenez was elected to its board of directors at...

Aerial Firefighting Asia Pacific 2016 “A Round Up”

Tangent Link's Aerial Firefighting show held in Australia. A massive thank you goes out to everyone involved in Tangent Link’s Aerial Firefighting Asia Pacific 2016...

Dauntless Aviation Gives Elementary Students View of Aerial Firefighting Aircraft

While aerial firefighting crews waited for the seemingly endless winter to finish dumping snow in the midwest, the crews at Dauntless Aviation gave an impressive overview of the company's operations to wide eyed first graders while the company's planes were in Appleton organizing a visit from students who attended Appleton-Milan Elementary school.

Georgia Forestry Commission buys two Switchbacks

Recently, the Georgia Forestry Commission advanced its aerial firefighting program with the purchase of two new 510G Switchback Thrushes. The aircraft were introduced to...

Change in the Air: Rethinking old strategies to win a new wildfire war

Today, U.S. wildfires burn on average more than three times the number of acres per fire than just a few decades ago. The increasing size...

Tri-Rotor pilots save tractor driver

April 18 there was a grass fire in the sandhills, started by ATVs south of the Arkansas River, approximately 10 miles southwest of Lakin,...

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