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The Department of Agriculture amended rules to require all aerial applicators in South Dakota to acquire aerial applicator certification for agriculture plant pest control and right of way. This rule change came about because the S.D. Aviation Association received a notification from Minnesota Department of Agriculture that stated they would...

Someone has created a completely innovative and alternative, market-changing guidance system, that is radically different than anything on the market today.  It’s called AgPilotX and it is created by Insero, a 4-year old company based in Tempe, Arizona

By John Garr and Jerry Green of GarrCo Products Humectants are used widely, but often the unspoken component in spray mixtures. Humectants do the essential task of keeping water in the spray deposit and can even rehydrate spray deposits with water from rain or dew and from moisture in the...

Nancy Bacon Snow, age 77, of Wichita Falls passed away on Wednesday morning, March 28, 2018, in House of Hope in Wichita Falls. She spent the last hours of her life in a colorful room, decorated with her own art, and filled with the sounds of the music that she...

L-R: Michael Keeling, President ESOP Association; Jim Hirsch, President, Air Tractor; John Miller, Air Tractor ESOP Communication Committee Historian; Larry Wooldridge, Air Tractor Communication Committee member; Bill Burns, Communication Committee Chair; Kelly McCorkle, past Communication Committee Chair; (not shown) Julianne Marney, Air Tractor Communication Committee Vice Chairman   OLNEY, TX—Air...

When the Argentine Federation of Agro-Aerial Chambers (FEARCA) was created November 2, 1996, the aeronautical authority of our country was directed by a military organization, the Command of Air Regions of the Argentine Air Force. Nine years later March 15, 2007, that military structure  was transformed into the National Administration...

Dear Aerial Applicator: This is your invitation to participate in this year's agricultural fly-in clinics sponsored by the University of Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences Cooperative Extension and the Georgia Aerial Applicators Association.  These will be held at two locations to allow all interested pilots an opportunity to...

United States, Mexico and New Zealand Experience an Uptick The International Helicopter Safety Team (www.IHST.org) has gathered accident information from countries across the globe and continues to seeing an encouraging trend of safer civil helicopter operations. Preliminary 2017 data from 49 countries show that most have decreasing totals for both...

Torrance, CA — Robinson has added wire strike protection provisions to its R66 options list. Available only on R66 helicopters, the provisions are FAA certified and allow for easy, bolt-on installation of Magellan’s WSPS (Wire Strike Protection System) sold separately by Magellan Aerospace, Winnipeg, Canada. Robinson provisions add 7 lb...

Kaleb Gibson, a CD Aviation Services employee,  received his Repairman Certificate while working at CDAS. He continued to complete 18 months of required training and passed the FAA test to receive his Power Plant Certificate. Kaleb Gibson has been a CD Aviation Services employee for five years. While working full...