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On March 18, the famous Texas aircraft manufacturer Air Tractor, was showcased in the fourth episode of the TV series “Straight and Level”. The episode, titled “Hand Built and Family Owned,” highlighted Air Tractor and the AT-802 Fire Boss Aerial Fire Bomber – Air Tractor’s agricultural spray plane. The “Straight...

Salt Lake City, Utah authorities this week announced a public consultation in relation to use of the United States Air Force (USAF) in addition to hiring aviation companies to bring the innovative readiness training program to the city. The Innovative Readiness Training program is an initiative from the Department of...

MABRY I. ANDERSON — Clarksdale, Mississippi Inducted 1992 Co-founder of Mississippi Valley Aircraft Service; Assisted in organizing National Agricultural Aviation Association; Twice recipient of NAAA Outstanding Service Award, 1973 and 1981; NAAA Falcon Club member, 1991; author, “Low and Slow, an insider’s history of agricultural aviation”. Mabry I. Anderson began...

Last month, there was a celebration of “International Women’s Day”. It made me think about how far our industry has come and how women have played a part in making it what it is today. As a woman vendor, I have never thought twice about being a woman in a...

Farming and flying are a way of life for Ryan Dietrich. As the pilot for SkyTractors, Dietrich combines those two things by flying the company’s Ag Cat spray plane. SkyTractors is a family business with Dietrich as the pilot. His father, Jim, and brothers Aaron and Adam make up the...

For the better part of the last 25 years I have been working with foresters and others for whom the land is sacred, providing the best care possible to protect the tree landscape for which Maine is known. That includes, but is not limited to, aerial spraying of herbicides to...

by Ann Hatfield - Grahek Turbine Conversions, Ltd (TCL) partnered with Zanoni Equipamentos in 2019, the Brazilian leader in spray system production, to represent their line of stainless steel dispersal equipment in North America. "Zanoni Equipamentos is a family run business built on innovative, quality products, it was logical we...

he Arkansas Department of Agriculture’s State Plant Board held a regularly scheduled board meeting on Wednesday, March 3, 2021. During the meeting, the board considered a petition for rulemaking seeking changes to the current dicamba rule, Section XIII (B) of the Arkansas Rules on Pesticide Use, found HERE . After discussion of...

The FAA’s 43rd annual General Aviation and Part 135 Activity Survey (GA Survey) is now underway, reporting on calendar year 2020 aviation activity. The GA Survey is the only source of information on the general aviation fleet, the number of hours flown and the ways people use general aviation aircraft....

Senate President Troy Jackson, D-Allagash, a logger and the bill's sponsor, said aerial application of glyphosate and other herbicides has caused irreversible environmental damage. AUGUSTA — The Maine Legislature is considering a bill to ban aerial application of an herbicide used by large forest management companies for decades that has...