River or runway? Water bombers blitz the Burnett
The Burnett River is doubling as a runway as water bombers queue to refill while deployed to combat bushfires in the region.
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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…
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Pilots Who’ve Taken The Route Less Traveled Are In Demand
Many of the most lucrative jobs in aviation are held by airline pilots, positions thought to be highly secure and in-demand just last year as a wave of older pilots retired. The pandemic has upended that assumption, for a few years at least. In its wake, anxiety and a search for alternative employment is pervasive among air transport pilots.
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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…
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Prather Joins Air Tractor As Chief Financial Officer
Jeremy Prather has been appointed as the new Chief Financial Officer (CFO) at Air Tractor, Inc.
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The Evolution Of Firefighting Mission Equipment
Aircraft capability has evolved from the early simple mechanical “pull the lever” designs, to today’s computer-controlled “drop by wire” firegate systems equipped with advanced telemetry and data gathering capability.
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Low and Fast
Heinen Brothers Agra Services operates more than a dozen bases outside of its home in Northeastern Kansas.
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Air Tractor Donates Masks to Olney, TX
Air Tractor produced and donated more than 1,600 masks to Olney Hamilton Hospital along with schools in the Olney Independent School District.
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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…
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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…
