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As a result, contracts were entered into with four California contractors, Aero Union Corp., Sis-Q Flying Service, TBM Inc. and Hemet Valley Flying Service to modify and tank ten S-2 air tankers during the 1973/1974 winter period. As a result, 12 S-2As were placed in service in 1974 and five more were built by Bay Aviation Services and put into ...
CAL FIRE contracted in the past with 10 Tanker Air Carrier for three years' of exclusive use of their McDonnell Douglas DC-10-10 heavy air tanker known as Tanker 910 for aerial firefighting at a cost of $5 million per year. Additional access was also provided to DC-10-30 air tankers, being Tanker 911 and Tanker 912. In 2014 Tanker 910 was ...
A year later, the OV-10 replaced the Cessna 337 as Air Attack 310 based at Ryan. In June 2001, Cal Fire replaced the older S-2As at Ryan with Tanker 72 and 73. The new tankers are S-2F3AT Turbine Tanker conversions with upgrades including constant flow 1200 gallon tanks and turbine engines allowing for better capabilities and performance. [5]
A Cal Fire employee works on the interior of a 1984 C-130H air tanker on Thursday. The aircraft is being retrofitted to hold a 4,000-gallon tank for flame retardant.
May 17—As fire season looms, the U.S. Forest Service is amping up its readiness with major improvements for air tankers that take the battle to wildfires, dropping fire retardant on the blazes ...
The Santa Maria Airport serves as an aerial firefighting air tanker base for the U.S. Forest Service as well as for state and local firefighting agencies in California. [21] Aerial firefighting air tanker aircraft operating from the airport have included the McDonnell Douglas DC-10-30 wide body jet flown by 10 Tanker Air Carrier, the McDonnell ...
Budgeting is more popular than ever. A 2022 Debt.com survey found that 86% of people track their monthly income and expenses, up from 80% in 2021 and 2020 and roughly 70% pre-pandemic. And in a ...
Staffing at the base consists of one battalion chief and one fire captain (air tactics group supervisors), one fire apparatus engineer (base manager), and several firefighters. The complement of aircraft located at Ukiah includes one OV-10 Bronco (Air Attack 110) and two Grumman S-2 Tracker air tankers (classified as S-2Ts, Tankers 90 and 91.)