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Forest Protection offers one of the world’s best fleets of environmental management aircraft today.

Forest Protection Air Tractor AT-802s are the world’s largest single-engine air tankers, customized with specialized equipment, computers and software, making these aircraft unique to Canada and abroad.

Key Features of Air Tractor AT-802s

  • Dual Usage: Equipped for aerial firefighting and aerial treatment missions
  • State of the art technology: FPL’s aircraft will achieve 100% accuracy on delivering the product at the correct rate, flow and on target. By accounting for certain factors such as wind speed and direction, and aircraft height, our fleet is on the cutting edge of research and development in aerial application technology.

No other fleet of single engine forestry aircraft in Canada is so uniquely equipped and offers these capabilities.

As an aerial firefighting asset, computerized fire gate controls and high-capacity hopper make the AT-802 a state-of-the-art air tanker.

For pest control, the GPS guidance system, radar altimeter, automatic flow control system, automatic boom control system and data logging capability make this Air Tractor platform an amazing aircraft.

Other features of Forest Protection's fleet of AT-802

  • Our aircraft has autopilot controls feature used for FLP's environmental management

    Autopilot controls

  • Our aircraft has Reverse Thrust feature used for FLP's environmental management

    Reverse thrust

  • Our aircraft has Lighting Protection feature used for FLP's environmental management

    Lightning protection

  • Air Conditioning feature used for FLP's environmental management aircraft

    Air conditioning for working over forest fires

  • Hopper Capacity feature used for FLP's environmental management aircraft

    3,100 litre hopper capacity (820 U.S. gallon)

  • Fuel Tanks feature used for FLP's environmental management aircraft

    1,400 litre long range fuel tanks (380 U.S. gallon)

  • Dual Seat Cockpits feature used for FLP's environmental management aircraft

    Dual seat cockpits

  • Dual Seat Flight Controls feature used for FLP's environmental management aircraft

    Select number of AT-802F with dual seat flight controls used for pilot training

We are proud to be able to provide an aircraft with unique capabilities that can help preserve and protect the forests that sustain our ecosystems, our communities, and our economies.

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