In 2002, two large airtankers – a Lockheed C-130 Hercules and a Consolidated PB4Y-2 Privateer – crashed about a month apart while performing aerial firefighting operations. These crashes …

Jun 16, 2020 · In 2002, a C-130, call sign Tanker 130 owned by Hawkins & Powers Aviation of Greybull, Wyoming and operated under contract to the United States Forest Service (USFS), …

Jul 26, 2024 · A tanker plane that disappeared in eastern Oregon while fighting one of the many wildfires spreading across several Western states has been found, and the pilot on board is …

Jul 26, 2024 · SENECA, Ore. (KTVZ) -- A BLM-contracted single-engine air tanker helping fight a new wildfire in Eastern Oregon crashed Thursday evening, killing the pilot on board, …

Mar 7, 2025 · The pilot of a single-engine air tanker (SEAT) that crashed in Grant County Thursday was identified Sunday as 74-year-old James Bailey Maxwell. He was found …

On 6 February 2023, a Boeing 737-300 owned by Coulson Aviation and used as an air tanker crashed in the Fitzgerald River National Park in the Great Southern Region of Western …

Jun 7, 2012 · The tragic loss of two lives in the crash of Air Tanker 11 while suppressing a wildfire on Sunday has cast a spotlight on the air tanker program and the military surplus aircraft that …

Jul 26, 2024 · PORTLAND, Ore. (KOIN) — An air tanker pilot is dead after disappearing in the Malheur National Forest late Thursday night, according to fire officials. Authorities say the …

Jul 26, 2024 · A pilot has been found dead after the air tanker he was flying crashed near the scene of a wildfire in Oregon, authorities said Friday.

Jul 28, 2024 · Maxwell was killed late Thursday night in the crash of the single-engine Air Tractor 802A after responding to a new lightning start, the Parasol Fire, near the much-larger Falls …