Tag: Aerial Firefighting

Port Lincoln pilot of 30 years Tony Warren is spending his third winter far from home, helping fight fires in the European summer. The 45-year-old aviator is among a growing ...

This information was provided by the Texas Agricultural Aviation Association The Texas A & M Forestry Service reports that the Smokehouse Creek Fire in the Texas Panhandle is 89% contained. ...

Leading aerial firefighting operators have joined together to form the first industry association dedicated to serving and fostering safety and standardization in the aerial firefighting community. The United Aerial Firefighters ...

A group of agricultural pilots in Napa Valley, Calif., met this week to start talks about how to partner with Cal Fire to put out wildfires. Agricultural aviators say they ...

The Argentine Federation of Agroaereal Chambers (Fearca) and the provincial government of Santa Fé signed an agreement last week in Brazil to use agricultural aviation aircraft in firefighting operations. On ...

Suppose California had a squadron of agricultural-aviation planes that could scramble to assist with firefighting efforts at a moment's notice. Rob Scherzinger, who chairs the California Agricultural Aviation Association, doesn't ...

The Federal Aviation Administration put out a request for information last week that seeks to obtain information from operators primarily flying low altitude operations, such as pilots flying  aerial firefighting, ...

OLNEY, Texas — Air Tractor President Jim Hirsch announced today the retirement, as an Air Tractor dealer, of Chip Kemper, owner of Queen Bee Air Specialties in Rigby, Idaho. With ...

Rural Manitobans are very familiar with the term crop dusting — spraying fields with chemicals from a small low-flying aircraft — but how about fire dusting? After years of feeling helpless watching ...