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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

March 5, 2007 When Bombardier Aerospace received the Batefuegos de oro award from the Asociacion para la Promocion de Actividades Socioculturales (APAS) for the "Greatest technological advancement in ...

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 ...

The Canadair CL-415, known as the “Super Scooper,” is a specialized amphibious aircraft designed exclusively for aerial ...

One of the “Superscooper” planes hit a barge with its left hand wing while scooping water in the harbor to support firefighting activities in a forest fire in Collias, near Nimes. The Canadairs belong ...

The devastating wildfire season in Europe this year could spur new business for a Victoria-based aircraft company and restart production of a Canadian-made water bomber. During the devastating 2017 ...

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 ...

Viking Air of British Columbia is looking at whether it is worthwhile to begin new production of the Bombardier CL-415. This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below.

Ten years after buying the rights to the DHC-6 Twin Otter, Viking Air has acquired another venerable aircraft programme from Bombardier – the CL-415 water bomber. The Vancouver Island-based company’s ...