In 2002, the United States was facing one of the worst wildfire seasons in the last half-century. Hundreds of thousands of acres burned in Colorado. Aside from brave firefighters, the U.S Forest ...

The U.S. Forest Service has contracted to use it again this year. The aircraft is stationed at McClellan Air Force Base outside Sacramento, and the Forest Service is just waiting on a software upgrade ...

Wildfire Today reported on Friday that the investor group that owns the massive 747 Supertanker used to fight wildfires has been grounded and the company has ceased operations. The decision comes as ...

CALIFORNIA, USA — "I spent a lot of time in northern California last summer and it was used extensively, over 100 missions in California last year," Cal Fire Battalion Chief Jon Heggie said. But, now ...

The largest aircraft used to fight wildfires like the ones raging in California and Oregon was once the largest passenger plane in the world. The U.S. Forest Service used to break fire fighting planes ...

DENVER — Back in 2018, Next with Kyle Clark Reporter Marshall Zelinger likened asking “where is the Supertanker?” to pondering why the tax revenue from legal marijuana hasn’t solved all of Colorado’s ...

MOSES LAKE, Wash. — Washington state officials this week pushed the idea of becoming a regional home base for a firefighting airliner, as the official start of Washington’s 2021 wildfire season ...

I don’t know about you, but this makes me nervous: US government agencies are now looking at the possibility of using the impressive Boeing 747-100 Supertanker for dirty radioactive and biological ...

Evergreen International Aviation was poised to begin water-drop flight tests of its converted Boeing 747-based Supertanker firefighting aircraft late last week. High-altitude "dry" flights of the ...