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Converted 747 now largest fire-fighting tanker plane
It can deliver nearly 20,000 gallons of water or fire retardant per flight, almost twice the capacity of the next-biggest tanker. Bigger is always better... (www.avweb.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Eventually they'll have A380s and Antonovs
What about the DC10, I would have figured that they would have been very close in capacity!
saw it at Sacramento last month -- beautiful... hope I DON'T see it this fall's fire season
OLD NEWS ALERT!!! They have had this since 2006!
Not the first-ever, correct. But this ex-Delta airframe is bigger (-400) than the defunct Evergreen variants (-100).
It was actually an Ex Evergreen 747-400. Was stored in Victorville where a heavy C check was performed, then flown to KMZJ, Pinal Airpark, There she was painted and and the tanks which were taken from the original Supertanker were Reinstalled into the Global Tanker.