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Forest Service Operates Temporary Large Air Tanker Base From Casper Natrona County Airport

CASPER, Wyoming - In the summer, Casper is the home base for two Single Engine Air Tankers, or SEATS, that help fight fires in...

Airbus Successfully Tests Firefighting Kit on A400M

Getafe, 26 July 2022 –Airbus has successfully tested a removable firefighting demonstrator kit on the A400M new generation airlifter during a flight test campaign in Spain. The test...

302 AW Airmen Embody Agile Combat Employment via Aerial Firefighting

PETERSON SPACE FORCE BASE, Colo. -- In January 2022, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. CQ Brown, Jr., signed the service’s first doctrine publication on...

Coulson Aviation Sign Deal for Purchase of Coulson 737 FIRELINER with Provincia de Santiago del Estero in Argentina

 Coulson Aviation USA is proud to announce the sale of one of its Boeing 737 FIRELINER Large Airtankers to the Provincia de Santiago del Estero,...

San Diego Success! – Tangent Link’s Aerial Firefighting Show Returns to North America

After a two-year hiatus from hosting the aerial firefighting show in the United States, Tangent Link’s Aerial Fire Fighting North America returned to San...

Air crews invaluable in fight against Arizona wildfires

The Crooks Fire has burned more than 9,000 acres and on Wednesday some aerial crews were grounded because of the lack of visibility because...

Why fighting wildfires is the hardest flying Air Force crews do outside combat

Forget what you’ve seen in movies: flying low and slow in large fixed-wing aircraft is tough to do. It is even more difficult while...

First locally based Large Air Tanker to fight WA bushfires

The McGowan Labor Government has committed $11 million over four years in the 2022-23 State Budget to secure the first Large Air Tanker (LAT)...

Singapore Firm Makes Inroads Supplying U.S. With Firefighting Tankers

One of Singapore’s top defense contractors wants to build a tanker that could replace the U.S. National Guard's C-130J Hercules and other models used...

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