Bombardier has decided to shut down the completion facility for CL-415 water-bombers while the programme remains paused pending further orders. Since 1998, Bombardier has built the CL-415 at a plant ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A Canadair CL-415 aircraft, commonly referred to as a "Super Scooper," was conducting fire suppression operations at the Palisades ...

Among the most effective aerial tools firefighters use to combat forest fires is the air tanker, or water bomber. These purpose-built, fixed-wing, amphibious aircraft are designed to skim along the ...

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 ...

On Wednesday afternoon, First Officer Henry Williams and his captain had a birds-eye view of the Crosho fire as they dove through the rising clouds of smoke in a Canadair CL-415 aircraft with hopes of ...