Its looking like spring...snow is melting & rainbows are out! Photo from Bertrand, our Director of Engineering. #aerialfirefighting #aviation #airtankers #birddogs #aircraftmaintenance
Conair Aerial Firefighting
Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
Abbotsford, BC 15,723 followers
Protecting Our World
About us
For over 50 years Conair Group Inc. (Conair) has led the aerial firefighting industry, supporting government agencies with the largest, privately owned, fixed-wing fleet in the world, operating in Canada, the US, Australia and France. A skilled team of 350 professionals equips the company’s 70 aircraft with the latest tools and technology, going above and beyond to ensure aircraft are ready to dispatch when needed to respond to wildfires. With a focus on safety, Conair offers pilots a specialized Training + Tactics Centre, the only one in the world of its kind, providing access to simulators that produce successful missions in real world operations. Conair’s versatile fleet includes Bird Dogs, Land-Based Airtankers and Amphibious Aircraft. The newest airtanker is the Dash 8-400AT, with a 10,000 litre capacity to drop suppressant over diverse geography. The airtanker is converted at Conair's hangars in Abbotsford at a pace of one every 75 days. Offering a depth of resources, Conair provides wildfire agency partners the full advantage of economies of scale when enhancing, modernizing, or outsourcing operational support for their aerial firefighting resources. Conair provides aircraft for purchase, lease or contract, offering specialized services including engineering, flight operations and fleet maintenance related to aerial firefighting. We incorporate four values into everything we do and base all of our corporate decisions and actions on these fundamentals: • Supporting each other • Refining our safety practices • Improving service to our customers • Being accountable for our commitments. Individually and collectively, we are accountable for our performance, the delivery of our commitments and the results delivered to our customers.
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http://www.conair.ca
External link for Conair Aerial Firefighting
- Industry
- Aviation and Aerospace Component Manufacturing
- Company size
- 201-500 employees
- Headquarters
- Abbotsford, BC
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 1969
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1510 Tower Street
Abbotsford, BC V2T 6H5, CA
Employees at Conair Aerial Firefighting
Updates
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Tania Buss is promoted to Manager, Supply Chain - congratulations Tania! #aerialfirefighting #aviation #supplychain #wildfire
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Bomber 164 dropping on the Bingara Fire in New South Wales Australia - the RJ85 has a tank capacity of up to 11,355 litres, laying a long line of retardant to slow the spread of flames. Photo by Sean Leathers - @papa_surf46 #aerialfirefighting #bushfires #wildfire #airtanker #aviation #Firefighter
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Throughout the winter, our AMEs perform heavy maintenance on the fleet to ensure airtankers and water scoopers are ready to respond for the fire season. The team in one of our three hangars in Abbotsford works on an RJ85 and Dash 8-400AT... #aerialfirefighting #aircraftmaintenance #emergencypreparedness #Wildfires
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A Dash 8-400AT captured from a bird dog aircraft, dropping on a bushfire near Creswick, Victoria Australia in December. Photo from Wayne Rigg #aerialfirefighting #airtanker #bushfires #birddogleadplane #commandandcontrol
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A Dash 8-400AT on base in Avalon, Australia, standing by with aerial firefighting partners. Conair has three large airtankers operating in Australia, two Dash in Avalon plus one RJ85 in Dubbo to support firefighters during their summer bushfire season. Photo by Kilo Hotel Photography #aerialfirefighting #airtanker #brushfire #wildfires
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Conair has purchased two Daher TBM 960 aircraft as the company looks to modernize the air attack fleet used to fight wildfires. This surveillance aircraft is dispatched to fly continuously over a fire, monitoring fire activity, assessing risk, and strategizing airtanker drops. “Globally, the legacy fleet of birddog aircraft are reaching the end of their lifespans given the demanding conditions they fly in, facing turbulence, heat, smoke, and fluctuating elevations on a continuous basis,” shares Mike Benson, Director of Business Development with Conair. “These new aircraft offer key advantages for aerial firefighting response. They are fast, keeping pace with large airtankers; offer superior visibility, providing crews the ability to observe aircraft in a crowded airspace; can fly low and slow, showing airtankers where to place drops on a wildfire; and can be converted into multi-role platforms, if desired by our government agency partners, incorporating ISR technologies used to map wildfires or provide search & rescue capability.” The Daher TBM 960 aircraft will be retrofitted by Conair with specialized avionics and equipment specific to wildfire operations before deploying as Air Attack lead planes, or “birddogs,” providing tactical and strategic direction to aerial firefighting aircraft over wildfires. #aerialfirefighting #wildfire #airattack #emergencyresponse #emergencypreparedness #innovation
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Made in Canada! France's Dash 8-400MRE multi role airtanker. Fight wildfires; ship cargo; transport crews; medevac critically ill patients. An all hazard emergency response aircraft. #aerialfirefighting #airtanker #EmergencyPreparedness #emergencyresponse Image: @take_off974
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We're #hiring a new Operations Coordinator in Abbotsford, British Columbia. Apply today or share this post with your network.
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