A Canadair CL-415 firefighting plane crashed earlier this week in Mount Calcinera, near Linguaglossa, Sicily, in Italy. It all happened during a vegetation fire extinguishing operation. Two pilots ...

The Canadair CL‑415 Super Scooper is a daring marvel of aviation built for one mission—dousing wildfires with precision and speed. This amphibious twin-engine beast can skim over lakes at just the ...

On Wednesday afternoon first officer Henry Williams and his captain had a birds-eye view of the Crosho Fire as they dove through the rising clouds of smoke in a Canadair CL-415 aircraft with hopes of ...

At a news conference Friday morning, LA County Fire Chief Anthony Marrone, joined by Government Relations Director ...

One of the “Super Scooper” planes aiding in the battle against the Los Angeles wildfires was damaged after colliding with a drone and is now grounded, officials said on Thursday. The collision ...

A couple of Canadair CL-415 water-bombing aircraft were among the many machines fighting LA’s city-swallowing wildfires last month. The “super scooper” amphibious plane, which drinks from lakes and ...

This week came the sad news that Bombardier has paused the CL-415 amphibious water-bomber programme pending further orders. In firefighting, true amphibians are an exclusive breed. Here are 10. 1.

Ten years after buying the rights to the DHC-6 Twin Otter, Viking Air has acquired another venerable aircraft programme from Bombardier – the CL-415 water bomber. The Vancouver Island-based company’s ...

The CL-415 EAF, currently the latest in the line of Canadair aerial firefighters, will soon be joined by the next generation DHC-515 Firefighter. [Courtesy: De Havilland] De Havilland Aircraft of ...

Sabena technics will provide full support to French civil security agency la Direction de la Sécurité Civile for its Canadair CL-415 water bomber and Tracker S-2T fleet and for its Beechcraft B200 ...