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The Ayres Thrush, formerly the Snow S-2, [1] Aero Commander Ag Commander, and Rockwell Thrush Commander, is an American agricultural aircraft produced by Ayres Corporation and more recently by Thrush Aircraft. It is one of the most successful and long-lived agricultural application aircraft types in the world, with almost 2,000 sold since the ...
By 1981, the company was operating a crop-dusting training school. [2] A special V-1-A Vigilante version of the Thrush Commander was developed in 1989 for anti-drug operations in South America. [3] The company attempted to sell 10 Turbo Thrush aircraft to Iran in 1993, but was unable to receive an exemption from U.S. government sanctions. [4]
In July 2001, Ayres filed for bankruptcy and the rights to the S-2 aircraft were passed to Quality Aerospace. [1] In 2003, the factory was purchased by Larry Bays and Payne Hughes, and one month later Quality Aerospace transferred the type certificates of the S-2 to Thrush Aircraft. [2] [3] In 2005, the company had 150 employees. [4]
Pages in category "Thrush aircraft" ... Ayres Thrush This page was last edited on 30 March 2013, at 04:18 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative ...
Prototype Thrush with Challenger engine in experimental cowling and prototype rudder shape. Three 170 hp (130 kW) Curtiss Challenger-engined Curtiss Thrush prototypes (serialled G-1 to G-3) were built at Curtiss' Garden City factory, but these were underpowered [2] and production examples, redesignated Thrush J (serialled 1001 to 1010) with 225 hp (168 kW) Wright Whirlwind engines, were built ...
Data from Jane's All The World's Aircraft 2003–2004, Jane's all the World's Aircraft 2004-05, General characteristics Crew: 1 / 2 (M18BS) Capacity: 2,500 L (660 US gal; 550 imp gal) liquid or 2,200 kg (4,900 lb) dry chemical in fibreglass hopper forward of the cockpit (smaller hopper in M18BS) Length: 9.47 m (31 ft 1 in) Wingspan: 17.7 m (58 ft 1 in) Height: 3.7 m (12 ft 2 in) to tailfin on ...
The Piper PA-32RT-300T first left the assembly line in 1978-1979 and many are still being used today. This Piper is designated the Turbo Lance II. The single-engine plane can hold upwards of six ...
By 1958 there were 73 aerial topdressing firms in New Zealand, flying 279 aircraft—although the amount of superphosphate dropped and the area it fell on would continue to increase—from then on the numbers of companies, aircraft and pilots dropped as the larger more expensive Fletchers came to dominate the market and the one-man companies ...