Watch This Pretty Unusual Footage. The video below was filmed at Cagnes-sur-Mer, in the Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur region in southeastern France. It shows three Canadair CL-415 water bomber aircraft ...

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 ...

De Havilland Aircraft of Canada has launched its DHC-515 water bombers, which begin production this year. The DHC-515 Firefighter will build on the history of the iconic Canadair CL-215 and CL-415 ...

Canadair CL-415 planes, the workhorse of international aerial efforts to fight blazes, are making a comeback, like the one seen here over a 2025 wildfire in Albania ...

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 ...

A couple of Canadair CL-415 water-bombing aircraft were among the many machines fighting LA’s city-swallowing wildfires last month. The “super scooper” amphibious plane, which drinks from lakes and ...

The bulk of the active water bomber fleet is in Europe, with the second-largest portion in North America. TRU Simulation + Training's first CL-415 water bomber simulator resides at Ansett Aviation ...