A draft Executive Order (EO) from the Trump administration aims to reshape how wildland firefighting is carried out in the United States, Vertical Aviation International (VAI) has revealed. VAI says...
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Recoil Aerospace Inc. (Recoil), the US-based designer of rotorcraft aerial fire suppression systems (AFSS), has completed key steps toward FAA approval of its Internal AFSS tank for the UH-60 Black...
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Avincis has concluded a four-month aerial firefighting mission in Chile, where it tripled the number of hours flown compared to previous seasons, the company has announced. During the deployment, two...
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Trakka Systems has announced that autonomous wildfire suppression developer Rain has signed an agreement to integrate the TrakkaCam® TC-300-R multispectral camera system into a UH-60 helicopter operated by Brothers Air...
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Missions systems supplier TracPlus has announced the release of its latest platform, designed specifically for aerial firefighting operations. The company said that its FireFlyte system will make operations “more efficient,...
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Columbia Helicopters has announced that it has signed a renewal for its aerial firefighting contract with CMC Savunma Sanayi A.S. (“CMC”) in Türkiye. This marks Columbia’s fifth consecutive fire season...
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Australian Fire Fighting specialist Kestrel Aviation is celebrating the 40th anniversary of its founding by Ray Cronin OAM. The company, which remains a wholly family-owned business, began life as a...
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BOOST Systems has been appointed by IMS New Zealand as the exclusive representative of the Cloudburst Fire Bucket in Canada and the USA. Since its introduction in 2005, the Cloudburst...
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The Billings team celebrate the award of restricted category certification for its CH-47D. Image: BFS Billings Flying Services (BFS) has received its long-awaited FAA Restricted Category Type Certification for its...
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Winnipeg-based Custom Helicopters has become a technology launch partner for Voxelis Canada Corportation’s VoxVision, an AI-powered vision and data collection system. The platform enables the firefighting of wildfires with thermal...
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