A Texas “HUMP“ Pilot Builds An Aviation Legacy
Neal Aircraft has proudly been serving the aviation industry for 75 years.
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Capstan AG’s SwathPRP Aerial Application System Surpasses Anything Ag Aviation has Seen in System Spraying Technology
Suppose a pilot could change two of the most critical parameters of spraying during an application and just suppose the pilot wanted to change the spray droplet size to a predetermined one because the wind component changed, or they detected a temperature change?
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Agriculture by Air
“It’s the last frontier in aviation,” Leland Snow told an interviewer in 1966. “You do your own flying. And you don’t have to answer to anyone except a farmer if you goof on a job. The ag pilot has more freedom than anyone else in the air.”
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Pioneering Snow S-2A Ag Plane To Be Displayed At NAAA Ag Aviation Expo 2021
Savannah, GA — One of the earliest ag airplanes designed and built by the founder of Air Tractor, Inc. will fly to the 2021 National…
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Air Tractor: “We’re Rocketing Ahead.”
On track to build 165+ aircraft in 2021, Air Tractor is ready for an even stronger 2022. Air Tractor is set to produce more than…
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Wanted: Best Air Tractor Photo of 2021
Another spectacular year is drawing to an end. Send us your best Air Tractor photos of 2021. You could win major bragging rights, and your…
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New DOI/USFS Aviation Helmets Standard for Air Tractor Aircraft
The DOI/USFS Aviation Helmets Standard is for pilots of firefighting and agricultural aircraft.The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) recently approved a new flight helmet standard for…
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Disney’s Dusty Crophopper—the Little Airplane that Could—Comes to the Smithsonian
Buckle up! It’s going to be “Dusty” time at the Innovations in Flight Family Day and Aviation Display this Saturday, August 21. At the request of Disneytoon Studios, this Air Tractor AT-301/400A was fixed up to look like the Disney animated aircraft that had high-flying aspirations of competing as an air racer.
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900th AT-802 Joins Fleet of Largest Ag Operator in Western Australia
Australian Air Tractor operator Neville Dunn of Dunn Aviation recently took delivery of AT-802A-0900, the 900th in the 802 ag and firefighting series built by…
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Real-Life Dusty Crophopper Has New Home At Smithsonian
Air Tractor® “Dusty Crophopper” takes its place beside aviation legends. On Aug. 3, the National Agricultural Aviation Association presented to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air…
