KOCO has an article and photos of Aero-Flite’s brand new CL-415 water scooping air tanker (Tanker 260) that relocated from Florida to Oklahoma City a few days ago to be used on the fires in the area. Michelle Self posted a video on her Facebook page of it scooping out of Lake Liberty (map) while it was working on the fire near Guthrie, OK. The lake was five to ten miles west of the fire which would have contributed to very fast turnaround times for the 1,600-gallon water drops.
Aero-Flite’s new Air Tanker 260, a CL-415 working the #wildfire in OK http://t.co/WGtEB3iUcP pic.twitter.com/u3EqfHq3b4
— Fire Aviation (@FireAviation) May 7, 2014
I’m glad to see this-one more….