Two water-bombing airplanes credited with saving homes, cabins, lodges and maybe even a city over the past 14 Minnesota forest fire seasons will be auctioned off by the Department of Natural Resources ...

Viking Air expects to decide in the first quarter of 2019 whether to move forward with development and production of its proposed CL-515, an upgraded version of the CL-215 and CL-415 water bombers.

PRINCETON, Minn. -- The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources' fleet of wildfire-combating airplanes has grown this year, and not a moment too soon. A FireBoss airplane sits on the tarmac at ...

PRINCETON, Minn. — The Minnesota Department of Natural Resources’ fleet of wildfire-combating airplanes has doubled this year, and not a moment too soon. Dozens of wildfires have local and regional ...

DULUTH, Minn. — Two water-bombing airplanes credited with saving homes, cabins, lodges and maybe even a city over the past 14 Minnesota forest fire seasons will be auctioned off by the Department of ...

European emergency service aircraft operator Avincis has teamed with De Havilland Aircraft of Canada on support initiatives related to the CL-215 and CL-415 family of twin-engine water bombers.

A piston engine-powered Canadair CL-215 water bomber is shown in flight over Marseilles, France. It is one of four being used in France to fight fires and six more CL-215s have been ordered Stone ...

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 ...

A smoker taking a stroll to indulge his vice got a serious brush with death last week on the coast of Lac de Villeneuve-de-la-Raho, a lake in the south of France. On its way to skim the lake and grab ...