Air Tractor News
Best Air Tractor Photo of 2020 Contest
Send us your best Air Tractor photos of 2020. You could win major bragging rights, and your photos could be featured in future Air Tractor promotions. The photos may show your aircraft on the ground or in the air. However, all photography must be taken safely and...
Air Tractor Continues Meeting The Demand
Air Tractor returns to Savannah at the close of a strong year of aircraft production and sales. Air Tractor President Jim Hirsch reports that despite the worldwide novel coronavirus pandemic, domestic and international demand for agricultural and firefighting aircraft...
Prather Joins Air Tractor As Chief Financial Officer
Jeremy Prather has been appointed as the new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Air Tractor, Inc.
Sweden’s wildfire defense expands with Air Tractor scooper water bombers
Air Tractor Europe recently delivered to Sweden the second of two Air Tractor AT-802F Fire Boss scooper water bombers. The aerial firefighting airplanes, pilots and support crews will fulfill a contract with the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB) to enhance...
Abide Ag-Aero closes after 61 years
L-R, Tommy Lewis, Charlene Heafner and Harold Powers After decades serving ag operators and pilots in the Mississippi Delta, Harold Powers, Jr. will go into well-deserved retirement and shutter the business that he helped build since 1959. Air Tractor parts...
First AT-802F FRDS GEN III Firegates Installed On U.S. Air Tankers
A new Gen III FRDS firegate has received STC certification for installation on Air Tractor AT-802F airplanes. Air Tractor, Inc. supplier Trotter Controls, with Air Tractor support, has received a Federal Aviation Administration Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) for...
20,000th Lethbridge-built Pratt & Whitney engine installed in Air Tractor airplane
Scott Delong of Farmers Cooperative in Dorchester, Nebraska, left, with Garrett Frost of Frost Flying upon delivery of Air Tractor AT-602-1308. The partnership between Texas-based aircraft manufacturer Air Tractor and Pratt & Whitney dates back decades, and...
New Zealand’s First Air Tractor 502XP Delivered To Super Air Ltd.
The popular Air Tractor 502XP continues its global reach by taking to the skies above New Zealand, thanks to ag operator Super Air Ltd. John Elliot, manager of Super Air Ltd. in Hamilton, New Zealand, took possession of the 502XP (SN 502A-3149) in late 2019. Following...
Air Tractor AT-802F airtankers fought Australia bushfires
As the Aerial Firefighting North America 2020 Conference begins this week in Sacramento, California, international firefighting agency attendees will be assessing the damage, intensity and scale of Australia’s January bushfires. More than 15.6 million acres (6.3...
Custom Painted Air Tractor Helmet Goes Up For Bids at Ag Aviation Expo Live Auction
Tuesday afternoon an Air Tractor custom painted helmet will go to the highest bidder at the NAAA Live Auction. The HGU-55 Kevlar helmet comes equipped with Electret mic with wire boom, microphone mount round, active noise reduction, Lightspeed Zulu H-Mod with...
