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1 a400m-firefighter-image The Roll-On Water Bomber Comes to Europe — Decades After MAFFS Wrote the Playbook  2 airbus-a319-1 The Obsolescence Safehouse  3 Canada Says It Has a National Firefighting Fleet. It Has a Lease. 4 U.S. Air Force Staff Sgt. Yuya Dorgan maneuvers a drone in a virtually simulated environment during the Joint Multi-Domain Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems Operator Course in the Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, Feb. 13, 2026. The Joint Multi-Domain Counter Unmanned Aircraft Systems Operator Course is a course designed to turn warfighters into subject matter experts in counter-UAS tactics who return to their units as force multipliers in countering the UAS threat. (U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Jamie Robinson) The Certification Bottleneck: Why Aerial Firefighting’s Greatest Simulation Breakthrough Is Trapped in Regulatory Limbo    5 66666 Jet Fuel Hit $10 a Gallon in California. Here’s Why Firefighting Fleets Don’t Care. 
The Roll-On Water Bomber Comes to Europe — Decades After MAFFS Wrote the Playbook 
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The Roll-On Water Bomber Comes to Europe — Decades After MAFFS Wrote the Playbook 

wpadmin August 5, 2026
The Obsolescence Safehouse 
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The Obsolescence Safehouse 

wpadmin August 5, 2026
Canada Says It Has a National Firefighting Fleet. It Has a Lease.
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Canada Says It Has a National Firefighting Fleet. It Has a Lease.

Alex Sarnoff June 19, 2026
The Certification Bottleneck: Why Aerial Firefighting’s Greatest Simulation Breakthrough Is Trapped in Regulatory Limbo   
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The Certification Bottleneck: Why Aerial Firefighting’s Greatest Simulation Breakthrough Is Trapped in Regulatory Limbo   

wpadmin June 8, 2026
Jet Fuel Hit $10 a Gallon in California. Here’s Why Firefighting Fleets Don’t Care. 
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Jet Fuel Hit $10 a Gallon in California. Here’s Why Firefighting Fleets Don’t Care. 

wpadmin May 26, 2026
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  • The Roll-On Water Bomber Comes to Europe — Decades After MAFFS Wrote the Playbook 

    The Roll-On Water Bomber Comes to Europe — Decades After MAFFS Wrote the Playbook 

    August 5, 2026
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    The Obsolescence Safehouse 

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  • Canada Says It Has a National Firefighting Fleet. It Has a Lease.

    Canada Says It Has a National Firefighting Fleet. It Has a Lease.

    June 19, 2026
  • The Certification Bottleneck: Why Aerial Firefighting’s Greatest Simulation Breakthrough Is Trapped in Regulatory Limbo   

    The Certification Bottleneck: Why Aerial Firefighting’s Greatest Simulation Breakthrough Is Trapped in Regulatory Limbo   

    June 8, 2026
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The Roll-On Water Bomber Comes to Europe — Decades After MAFFS Wrote the Playbook 
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The Roll-On Water Bomber Comes to Europe — Decades After MAFFS Wrote the Playbook 

August 5, 2026
The Obsolescence Safehouse 
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The Obsolescence Safehouse 

August 5, 2026
The Roll-On Water Bomber Comes to Europe — Decades After MAFFS Wrote the Playbook 
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The Roll-On Water Bomber Comes to Europe — Decades After MAFFS Wrote the Playbook 

wpadmin August 5, 2026
BORDEAUX, France — When a French Air and Space Force A400M released some 20,000 liters of retardant ahead of...
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The Obsolescence Safehouse 
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The Obsolescence Safehouse 

wpadmin August 5, 2026
Why the Aerial Firefighting Fleet is Flight-Pathing to the Airbus A319  On the night of June 20,...
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Canada Says It Has a National Firefighting Fleet. It Has a Lease.
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Canada Says It Has a National Firefighting Fleet. It Has a Lease.

Alex Sarnoff June 19, 2026
Ottawa’s $316.7-million Pan-Canadian Aerial Asset Program buys five fire seasons of access and no aircraft. The bill comes...
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The Certification Bottleneck: Why Aerial Firefighting’s Greatest Simulation Breakthrough Is Trapped in Regulatory Limbo   
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The Certification Bottleneck: Why Aerial Firefighting’s Greatest Simulation Breakthrough Is Trapped in Regulatory Limbo   

wpadmin June 8, 2026
May 2026  The Anomaly at 20 Knots  A simulated helicopter flew toward a fire line at 20...
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Jet Fuel Hit $10 a Gallon in California. Here’s Why Firefighting Fleets Don’t Care. 
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Jet Fuel Hit $10 a Gallon in California. Here’s Why Firefighting Fleets Don’t Care. 

wpadmin May 26, 2026
While commercial aviation contracts under rising fuel prices, aerial firefighting operators are preparing for one of the...
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Bell Expands Aerial Firefighting Capabilities in Asia Pacific with First Bell 505 Order for Firefighting in South Korea
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Bell Expands Aerial Firefighting Capabilities in Asia Pacific with First Bell 505 Order for Firefighting in South Korea

wpadmin February 16, 2026
Singapore Airshow – Bell Textron Inc., a Textron Inc. (NYSE: TXT) company, announced today that South Korean aviation operator EnB...
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Los Angeles County Fire Department Expands Firehawk Fleet to Strengthen Wildfire Response
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Los Angeles County Fire Department Expands Firehawk Fleet to Strengthen Wildfire Response

wpadmin November 5, 2025
By Jonathan Pierce | Aviation & Emergency Services Correspondent LOS ANGELES, California — The County of Los Angeles Fire...
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Rep. Dan Newhouse Applauds Passage of Aerial Firefighter Legislation
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Rep. Dan Newhouse Applauds Passage of Aerial Firefighter Legislation

wpadmin July 2, 2025
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, Rep. Dan Newhouse (R-WA) released the following statement upon unanimous passage of S.160, the Aerial...
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C-27J Spartan: Leonardo’s Next-Gen Answer to Wildfire Challenges
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C-27J Spartan: Leonardo’s Next-Gen Answer to Wildfire Challenges

wpadmin November 25, 2024
By: Susan Finnick Leonardo has unveiled a state-of-the-art solution to combat the escalating threat of wildfires with...
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New-Generation Aircraft In Development For Aerial Firefighting Mission
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New-Generation Aircraft In Development For Aerial Firefighting Mission

wpadmin November 4, 2024
By: Tony Osborne After relying for decades on fleets of 1950s and ’60s-era aircraft, the firefighting industry...
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