I'm a third-generation firefighter — and I'm helping to battle the LA fires from the air in a DC-10 fire bomber. Here's how ...

Aerial firefighting companies supplement federal and state firefighting fleets, and their services are in high demand.

Specifically, the team at Kalitta Air is responsible for 10 Tanker's "C Checks" — a kind ... fabricated retardant tanks needed to turn the DC-10 into a firefighter, a task requiring a special ...

No, Kalitta Air is not directly fighting the LA fires, but Michigan-based operation has a special connection to those that ...

Conrad "Connie" Kalitta's air transport company is lending a hand to keep the air tankers battling the blazes.

waterscoopers (amphibious planes), Large Air Tankers (LATs), C-130’s with the Military Airborne Firefighting System (MAFFS) and DC-10 VLATs along with Boeing 737 VLAT aircraft as well. To help ...

Boeing Co. said it incurred nearly $3 billion worth of charges in the fourth quarter of 2024 due to a lengthy labor stoppage, job cuts and problems with a number of government programs.

Helicopter pilot Tim Thomas has fought dozens of wildfires all over the world, but nothing prepared him for the scale and the challenge of the devastating blazes that ripped through ...

Only eight DC-10s remain operational around the world - mostly in the United States as firebombers and tankers.

U.S. Air National Guard Maj. John-Mark Koetitz, a pilot with the 115th Airlift Squadron, pilots a California National Guard MAFFS (Modular Airborne Fire Fighting System) equipped C-130J Super Hercules ...