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EXTRA NEWS August 24, 2025

Firefighting Plane Crashes in Spain – Pilot Walks Away Unharmed (Video included)

AviationNews – It was a tense afternoon in north-west Spain on August 22, 2025, when a firefighting aircraft went down during a landing attempt at…

EXTRA NEWS, General Aviation News August 12, 2025

Aerial Firefighting in Portugal Grounded—For Now

Portugal’s heavy-duty Canadair water bombers—formerly the backbone of its aerial wildfire response—are temporarily sidelined. According to ANEPC (National Emergency and Civil Protection Authority), both CL-215…

Civilian aviation news April 30, 2025

Greece orders eight Airbus H215 helicopters to combat forest fires

Athens, Greece, 30 April 2025 – Airbus Helicopters has signed a contract with the Hellenic Ministry of Climate Crisis and Civil Protection for the purchase…

Canadair CL-415 C-GQBE/243 Quebec Government

Military Aviation News March 22, 2024

Greece approves purchase of seven firefighting planes from Canada

Greece announces the purchase of seven Canadair DHC-515 firefighting planes. The order will be finalized by the end of March 2024. The value of the…

Military Aviation News September 5, 2022

Embraer Concludes Flight Tests for Firefighting Capability for the C-390 Millennium

Embraer has successfully completed the flight test of the certification campaign for the Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System (MAFFS II), which provides the C-390 Millennium…

General Aviation News July 26, 2022

Airbus successfully tests firefighting kit on A400M

Airbus has successfully tested a removable firefighting demonstrator kit on the A400M new generation airlifter during a flight test campaign in Spain. The test campaign…

General Aviation News February 1, 2021

Saab Receives Order for two Further Firefighting Aircraft

The Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB), is exercising an option in their contract with Saab regarding aerial firefighting capability in Sweden. Saab will provide two…

General Aviation News December 10, 2019

Sikorsky And United Rotorcraft Deliver Three FIREHAWK® Helicopters To California Firefighting Agencies

Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company (NYSE: LMT), and United Rotorcraft, a division of Air Methods Corporation, announced today deliveries of three new S-70i™ FIREHAWK® helicopters…

Firehawk Los Angeles County Fire Department

Civilian aviation news, Military Aviation News April 5, 2018

Sikorsky Proposes Aerial Firefighting Solution to Operators of Black Hawk Helicopters in Latin America

The Firehawk Aerial Firefighting Mission Package can be retrofitted to the region’s existing Black Hawk fleets SANTIAGO, Chile, April 4, 2018 – Sikorsky, a Lockheed…

Civilian aviation news, Military Aviation News July 28, 2017

World-first refurbishment of Black Hawk helicopters for firefighting and disaster relief in Australia

BRISBANE, Australia, July 28, 2017 — In a ground-breaking new deal, Kaan Air Australia, Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) company, and StarFlight Australia, have signed an…

Civilian aviation news October 5, 2015

Bombardier Delivers Two Amphibious Aircraft to Government of Newfoundland and Labrador

Bombardier 415 aircraft will join forest firefighting fleet Bombardier Commercial Aircraft announced today that it has delivered two Bombardier 415 amphibious aircraft to the Government…

Civilian aviation news, General Aviation News December 10, 2014

Japan’s Iwate Prefecture Orders an AW139 Helicopter for Firefighting

Aircraft to be delivered at the beginning of 2016 • Growing success of the AW139 for public utility applications in Japan • 38 AW139s already…

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