The “water bomber” aircraft was fighting a fire in the mountains near Catania. A Canadair CL-415 aircraft with registration I-DPCN and radio callsign “Canadair 28”, crashed early in the afternoon on ...
Photo shows where an unauthorized drone perforated the left wing of the CL-415. Credit: Transport Quebec The Canadair CL-415 Super Scooper that was grounded by a drone strike while battling the ...
As the Chilean government emerges as a potential customer, Calgary-based Viking Air has moved within months of inducting the first of 11 CL-415 Enhanced Aerial Firefighter (EAF) airframes into ...
Viking Air of British Columbia is looking at whether it is worthwhile to begin new production of the Bombardier CL-415. The CL-215 was designed as a specialist firebomber, particularly suited to ...
SANTIAGO, Chile—Canada’s Viking Air is preparing to launch a modernized version of the CL-415 amphibious firefighting aircraft. The company took on the type certificates for both the CL-215 and CL-415 ...
The Canadair CL-415 was developed as a more capable successor to the earlier CL-215, built specifically to fight wildfires by scooping water from lakes, rivers, and coastal inlets before dropping it ...
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 ...