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2024 brought us hundreds of photo submissions, many of which were featured in our AgAv Pics section of AgAir Update, with many others highlighted on our social media channels for the magazine. Take a look at images from our featured photographers in our 2024 photo issue below. Tom Jones Sarah...

By Scott Bretthauer, Director of Policy, Education & Safety The 2024-2025 PAASS program will soon be coming to a state/regional convention near you. The primary missions of PAASS are to protect the lives and enhance the professionalism of agricultural aviators who have such a huge impact on the agricultural output...

The Arkansas Agricultural Aviation Association's convention, originally scheduled for early January, has been rescheduled. It will now take place on Friday, January 10, and Saturday, January 11, 2025, at the Oaklawn Racing Casino Resort. The event is just a week later than initially planned, and all other details remain unchanged. For...

BELDEN – Jerry Webb – husband, father, grandfather, friend, and agricultural pilot– took the most important flight of his life on Saturday evening, Sept. 7. 2024, from Sanctuary Hospice House to his eternal home. He was 78 years old. A lifelong resident of Lee County and the Belden community, he...

Another first for the Farm Progress Show is coming this year: the Air Tractor, which will be stationed at Lot 101 in the northwest corner of the show site. “The Air Tractor will be flying from Boone Airport to the north parking lot,” says Rick Wild, Farm Progress Show operations...

While the spraying season is winding down, aerial applicators are still working by seeding cover crops via aircraft. You may continue to hear the hum of an aircraft's engine until early fall. One of the most promising conservation practices aerial applicators can assist farmers with is aerially applying cover crop...

Nashua, New Hampshire (August 13, 2024): Rotor Technologies, Inc., enters the agricultural market with the Sprayhawk, an automated crop dusting UAV. The Sprayhawk is an unmanned aircraft based on the Robinson R44 full-scale helicopter; it can carry 110 gallons and spray over 240 acres per hour. Introductory pricing is $990,000...

ALAMEDA, Calif., Aug. 8, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Pyka, maker of Pelican Spray, the world's largest autonomous electric crop protection aircraft, is pleased to announce Heinen Brothers Agra Services, one of the largest privately owned aerial application service providers in North America, as its first Pelican Spray customer in the United States. "New...

The Ag Aviation Golf Tournament will return in 2024, this time to Heber Springs, Arkansas, on October 19 and 20. Tee time will be via shotgun start at 9 AM on Saturday, October 19, in a two-person scramble format. The event costs $175 per person and includes two rounds of...

U.S. Air Force Special Operations Command’s Light Attack becomes a reality, with the start of the training for the Sky Warden in both active duty and ANG units. On July 29, 2024, the 137th Special Operations Wing of the Oklahoma Air National Guard received its first L3Harris / Air Tractor...