Game Aerospace’s GB2 firefighting aircraft has completed its first flight in Arkansas. The single-engine airtanker is designed to carry 1,200 gallons of water or retardant.

Aircraft are one of the most important tools for fighting wildfires, and across the various agencies and private companies that use firefighting aircraft, you'll find an entire arsenal of airborne ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. FILE PHOTO - A firefighting plane dose water over flames during a wild fire that affected an agricultural area. (is associated ...

Kepplair is preparing flight tests of an ATR 72-based firefighting aircraft as operators seek faster, lower-cost options for expanding aerial firefighting fleets. The converted ATR 72 will carry ...

A specialized Canadian firefighting plane responding to the wildfires in Southern California was grounded Thursday after it struck an unidentified drone, officials said. The CL-415 "Super Scooper" is ...

July 13 (UPI) --At least 400 French firefighters were battling a wildfire of "exceptional scale" in a forest south of Paris for the second day straight, authorities said Monday as the region sweltered ...

The pilot of a firefighting plane died Friday when his aircraft crashed while trying to put out a blaze that has been raging in southern France for four days, the local authorities said. The accident ...

YUCAIPA, Calif. (AP) — Authorities briefly grounded air tankers that were fighting a wildfire in Southern California on Sunday after a drone flew close to the blaze. The planes fighting a 35-acre fire ...

June 25 (UPI) -- Authorities in northern Canada on Thursday confirmed that three people are dead after a plane responding to forest fires in the Northwest Territories crashed the night prior. NWT Fire ...