Leland Snow, founder and president of Air Tractor, died on Sunday while jogging near his home in Wichita Falls, Texas. He was 80. Snow designed his first aerial spray airplane, the S-1 ...

The pilot standing before them was Leland Snow, a 28-year-old native of the Rio Grande Valley, who was already well on his way to becoming the Thomas Edison of agricultural aviation. The crop ...

Air Tractor Inc. is a United States aircraft manufacturer based in Olney, Texas. Leland Snow founded the company in 1978 in order to manufacture a new agricultural aircraft derived from the S-2B ...

The first 802s were built in the early 1990s. Company founder Leland Snow began designing the large capacity, single engine airplane specifically for aerial firefighting. The first production ...