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Most of the articles I have presented are focused on best practices. I can share the information, but it is up to each engine owner to do what they want with it. All I can do is lay out a path for success. When things start to go in the...

“Just can’t wait to get on the road again…Goin' places that I've never been…” - Willie Nelson. At the beginning of each season, your ag aviation business undergoes a period of readjustment to get all the kinks out of the operation from receipt of order to finished job. It just...

The NDN-6 Fieldmaster - Part II By 1995, the Fieldmaster program was essentially over. Owner Andrew MacKinnon and the current company he headed, EPA Aircraft, found themselves with a product they could not produce nor sell. Andrew had also run out of working contracts for the aircraft, so they were...

Situated a short 60 miles away from the Motor City on the Canadian side of the Detroit River, Zimmer Air Services Inc (ZASI) has been in the aerial application business for over 40 years and currently runs a fleet of fixed and rotary wing aircraft.  We caught up with Operations...

Unworkable and inconsistent regulations are making agricultural spraying near-impossible in some areas, says the New Zealand Agricultural Aviation Association (NZAAA). A number of regional and district councils around the country are reviewing their long-term plans and proposing some changes which affect those who use planes and helicopters to spread fertiliser....

The volume of fertiliser applied from aircraft halved last year and applications from ground spreaders were back about a third. Initial data released by the New Zealand Agricultural Aviation Association and the Civil Aviation Authority shows the volume of solid and liquid fertiliser applied by fixed-wing aircraft and helicopters in...

By Ryan Varjassy The NDN-6 Fieldmaster was the brainchild of British aviation legend Nigel Desmond Norman, starting in the mid-1970s. Desmond and his college friend and business partner, John Britten, formed a relationship in the 1950s at the De Havilland Technical School, where they studied aircraft design. In 1954, the...

The PZL M-15 was an unconventional aircraft, from its somewhat bizarre appearance to its performance and eventual cancellation after being the only jet turbine-powered crop duster aircraft ever to be manufactured. Designed by Polish aircraft manufacturer WSK PZL Mielec, the M-15 was developed in the early 1970s as the Soviet...

How Conversiones SA has driven innovations in aerial application from Mexico to Panama by Lucas Zanoni Taking off into the future It all began in the Guatemalan Air Force. Julio Cesar Reyes Veliz, the son of an aeronautical mechanic, had his first encounter with aviation during his childhood. His father,...

The FAA has issued an emergency Advisory Directive (AD). They are following the lead of Transport Canada and EASA (Transport Canada Emergency AD CF-2024-05). Pratt and Whitney Canada have also issued a corresponding category 1 service bulletin (A14574). To highlight what this means regarding importance, Pratt & Whitney Canada has...