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A wide variety of helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft are used for aerial firefighting. In 2003, it was reported that "The U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management own, lease, or contract for nearly 1,000 aircraft each fire season, with annual expenditures in excess of US$250 million in recent years".
Category for helicopters involved with aerial firefighting Pages in category "Aerial firefighting helicopters" The following 9 pages are in this category, out of 9 total.
Firefighting Utility helicopter 14 [18] [19] Used by Turkish Aeronautical Association. Leased from Russia. Sikorsky/TAI T-70 United States Firefighting Utility helicopter 3 [20] [21] Used by General Directorate of Forest. Licensed built by TAI. Bell 429 GlobalRanger United States Firefighting Multipurpose utility helicopter 5 [22]
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Since 2020, there have been at least 14 fatal crashes of airplanes and helicopters fighting fires in the U.S., killing at least 25 pilots and crew members, according to a Times review of federal data.
Budgie the Little Helicopter is a British animated television series, relating to a fictional helicopter and his friends, based on a series of children's books. [4] The characters were based on the books by Sarah Ferguson, Duchess of York . [ 5 ]
Underwater teams are trying to recover a helicopter that crashed in a lake over the weekend, killing three crew members, while fighting a forest fire in western Turkey, state media reported Monday.
A helitack helicopter will launch with a crew on board, drop them in the vicinity of the fire (or "incident") where they will begin clearing a firebreak with standard hand tools, while the helicopter can then support the team with water drops, either with a Bambi bucket or airframe-mounted water tanks, or ferry in additional personnel (e.g ...