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By 1984 Conair had the world's largest private fleet of Air Tankers including 50 fixed wing aircraft and 15 helicopters and by the early 1990s has grown to over 90 aircraft. Conair Aviation Ltd. later became Conair Group Inc., and they continue to be based out of Abbotsford, British Columbia. [6] [7] [8]
Around 1970, Conair got in to the "jet age", and bought second-hand Boeing 720Bs from Eastern Air Lines instead. In autumn of 1987, two Conair Boeing 720s had their nose gear cracked during otherwise normal landings in Salzburg, Austria and Rome, Italy. The fleet was already set to be renewed to second-hand Airbus A300B4s. But after the two ...
The Conair Firecat is a fire-fighting aircraft developed in Canada in the 1970s by modifying military surplus Grumman S-2 Trackers. The modifications were developed by the maintenance arm of the Conair Group , which became a separate company called Cascade Aerospace .
Conair or Con Air may refer to: Conair Corporation, an American consumer goods company; Conair Group, formerly known as Conair Aviation, a Canadian aerial firefighting company; Conair of Scandinavia, a Danish airline 1964–1994; Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System, nicknamed "Con Air", a United States Marshals Service airline
Con Air is a 1997 American action thriller film directed by Simon West and starring Nicolas Cage, John Cusack and John Malkovich in the lead roles. Written by Scott Rosenberg and produced by Jerry Bruckheimer , the film centers on a prison break aboard a JPATS aircraft, nicknamed as "Con Air".
Pages in category "Conair aircraft" This category contains only the following page. This list may not reflect recent changes. F. Conair Firecat
The Convair CV-240 is an American airliner that Convair manufactured from 1947 to 1954, initially as a possible replacement for the ubiquitous Douglas DC-3.Featuring a more modern design with cabin pressurization, the 240 series made some inroads as a commercial airliner, and had a long development cycle that produced various civil and military variants.
A U.S. Marshal on a "Con Air" flight. Patch of JPATS, Air Operations Division, Air Crew. The Justice Prisoner and Alien Transportation System (JPATS), nicknamed "Con Air", [1] is a United States Marshals Service airline charged with the transportation of persons in legal custody between prisons, detention centers, courthouses, and other locations.