Aerial Firefighter Modifies Maintenance For Reconfigured Regional Jets

Credit: Neptune Aviation Services
In 2011, Neptune Aviation Services deployed a BAe 146—reconfigured as an air tanker—to a major wildland fire, the first time that aircraft type was used for aerial firefighting. Today, the Missoula, Montana-based company has modified seven of the former regional jets as air tankers for fire...

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