November 2021 - U.S. Edition in English

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Keep Turning… In This Issue Volume 39 Number 11 | November 2021

PRESIDENT: Graham Lavender - graham@marsaylmedia.com VICE-PRESIDENT: Bill Lavender - bill@agairupdate.com SECRETARY: Sandy Lavender - sandy@agairupdate.com

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Charolotte County Florida Aerial Application 22 Keeping the Chain Strong 26 Turbine Conversions, Ltd Announces the

Approval of Hatfield Hydraulic Fire Gate by ANAC Brazil B1 Service Bulletins and the Aircraft Owner B16 Accident Or Incident? Explaining Aircraft

Damage Assessment B36 Ag Aviation Golf Tournament Highlights

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From the Cockpit | Bill Lavender

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Calendar of Events | See What’s Happening

10 AgAir Mail | Correspondence with the Industry 20 Craymer’s Counsel | Robert Craymer B4 Insights | National Agricultural Aviation Association B22 Regina’s Perspective | Regina Farmer B24 Low and Slow | Mabry I. Anderson B30 Wing and a Prayer | Carlin Lawrence B32 20 Years Ago | A Pawnee By No Other Name?

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FROM THE COCKPIT

Bill Lavender bill@agairupdate.com

Hours vs. Seasons vs. Years To be a professional ag-pilot, it takes experience in all elements of time. For me, I used only to log flight time annually. The FAA told me otherwise.

However, logging every flight mission to comply with an FAA inspector didn’t last. It was never brought up again, so I returned to logging annually. However, logging your flight time is essential, regardless if it’s every mission or annually, or something in between. If for nothing else, it makes for good reading during retirement.

There is more to flight experience than an hour in a logbook. An accumulation of flight hours resulting in a season better represents one’s level of experience. Logging is a documented record of flight experience. In comparison, a completed season represents many learning experiences, a much more complete representation of one’s abilities as an ag-pilot.

What is experience? It’s an accumulation of events that one learns from (my definition). You can’t really say that you are an experienced ag pilot until you have “experienced” three segments of flight time; hours, seasons and years. By adding the third segment, years, flight time becomes a valid reflection of the abilities of the ag-pilot.

Each segment of time contributes to your overall experience. You can’t log a lot of time during a partial season and truly consider yourself experienced. There are no fooling years. That segment of experience is only earned as years pass by while active in the profession.

Actually, during a conversation, I never ask a pilot how many hours he has logged. Instead, I

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may inquire how many years he has been flying ag. His answer is a much better reflection of his experience. Unfortunately, a thick, old logbook doesn’t always tell the truth. The reason is some ag-pilots with a lot of logged hours simply don’t get it. They are only slightly better at aviating than they were when they started. NTSB reports on ag-aviation accidents prove this out.

Changing gears, I’m looking forward to this year’s AgAir Update hangar party in Perry, Georgia, the Friday before the NAAA Ag Aviation Expo in Savannah that starts on December 5 and continues until December 9. Graham is running the show, and he assures me this year’s party will be one for the history books. To that end, I know everyone is sick and tired of social distancing and masks. You can wear a mask to the party should you choose, but they will not be required. Nor will there be a vaccine requirement. These will be personal choices on your part. For the record, I’m vaccinated and won’t be masked! I hope to see you there.

Once you arrive at NAAA’s Ag-Aviation Expo and attend the exhibit hall, be sure to come by AgAir Update’s booth. There will be a cash bar situated between its sponsors AgAir Update and Lane Aviation. Plus, our new columnist, Michelle Miller, aka “The Farm Babe,” will be there to talk truth in agriculture!

Until next month - Keep Turning…

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November 2-4, 2021 Mid-States Ag Aviation Convention

Isle of Capri Casino Bettendorf, IA Garrett Lindell 309-582-5445 garrett@lindellaerialag.com November 9-10, 2021 Alberta AAA Conference and Annual General Meeting

Coast Lethbridge Hotel and Conference Center Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada 780-413-0079 info@albertaaerialapplicators.com albertaaerialapplicators.com November 16-17, 2021 CoAAA Convention and Trade Show

Island Grove Event Center Conference Rooms Greeley, CO Jessica Freeman 970-217-5239 jessica@coagav.org www.coagav.org December 3, 2021 AgAir Update’s 2021 Open House and Hangar Party

AgAir Update Hangar KPXE Perry, GA 478-987-2250 agairupdate.com/ hangarparty December 6-9, 2021 NAAA’s Ag Aviation Expo

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January 6-7, 2022 TxAAA Convention

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Golden Nugget Lake Charles, LA Ed Krielow 337-230-9952 edward@ekrielowcpa.com www.laaaonline.org

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TBD Colleen Campbell 406-781-6461 www. montanaaerialapplicators.org

January 14-16, 2022 ArAAA Convention

February 7-9, 2022 SEAF Convention

Downtown Little Rock Marriott Little Rock, AR Katherine Holmstrom 501-503-3310 Katherine@araaa.org www.araaa.org

Francis Marion Hotel Charleston, SC Linda Minton 772-465-0714 www.flagaviation.org

January 17-19, 2022 OKAAA Convention and Trade Show

Embassy Suites (TBD) Norman, OK Sandy Wells 405-431-0381 sandy@okaaa.org

February 13-15 2022 NC AAA Convention

Hilton Garden Inn Outer Banks/Kitty Hawk Kitty Hawk, NC Leslie Craft 252-426-9676 ncagaviation@gmail.com

January 20-22, 2022 MsAAA Convention

February 17-19, 2022 Canada AAA Conference and trade show

Beau Rivage Resort and Casino Biloxi, MS Vicki Morgan 662-299-7836 vickimorgan@msaaa.com msaaa.com

Montréal, QC Canada Phone: +1 780-413-0078 Fax: +1 780-413-0076 info@ canadianaerialapplicators.com canadianaerialapplicators. com/conference

January 26-28, 2022 NM AAA Convention

February 18-19, 2022 NAAA Spring Board Meeting

Inn of the Mountain Gods Mescalero, NM Sue Stewart 940-864-2456 dandsaerial@aol.com www.nmagaviation.org

Hotel Bonaventure Montreal, QC Canada Lindsay Barber 202-546-5722 information@agaviation.org

February 21-23, 2022 Tri State Aerial Applicator Convention

Alerus Center & Canada Inn Grand Forks, ND Terry Stieren 612-751-1187 tambroz@aol.com Andrea Goebel 605-690-3477 sdaviation@gmail.com Cindy Beck 701-899-3232 cindy@tri-stateaviation.com www.tristateaerialconvention. com February 28-March 2, 2022 NATA Convention

Younes Center Kearney, NE Taylor Moore 402-761-2216 taylor@youraam.com gonata.net May 27, 2022 International Crop Duster’s Day August 19, 2022 Brazilian Ag Aviation Day October 20-23, 2022 VIII Expo Congreso Aviación Agrícola 2022 Hotel Fiesta Americana

Puerto Vallarta, México adriana.garduno@ aviacionagricola.com.mx 55-55712072 ext 107 WhatsApp 5539777805 October 2022 CaAAA Annual Convention

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AGAIR MAIL

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Hello, Bill: Holy moly, just read your column in the Sept AAU and found out about your issues with the moderate stroke. I am delighted to hear you are making such great progress on the road back to health. So best wishes as you continue the journey!

All the Best!

Ted Delanghe Regina, SK Howdy Ted Thanks for your email. Yep, it has been quite a journey from 3 weeks in ICU, to a wheelchair, then 4-wheel walker, to a 2-wheel walker, then a cane and now walking 2-3 miles a day. I’m about 80% back to normal (whatever that is!).

I cannot yet jog and have numbness in my right hand and brain (joke). But, I get better each day, literally.

Take care,—Bill

Shaping and Guiding I so admire you and your publications.

Thank you for shaping and guiding the ag aviation industry.

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Blue skies and fair winds for all your days!

Chip Kemper Rigby, Idaho Howdy Chip Amazing book, UTTERLY And Then Some. How in the world could you find enough time to research and write such a detailed book? It’s on my nightstand, I only need to find the time to read it.

Thanks so much for your kind words and for thinking of me with a gift of your writing. — Bill

Greetings from Africa Graham, How are you and the family all doing?

Graham - quick one, any drone developments in the US that are actually worth paying attention too?

We have a few corporate sugar growers here in Africa that are doing trials with drones at present. We just don’t see the value / benefit at present in comparison to the fixed wing operations.

Please pass on our best regards to Bill.

With regards, George Orsmond South Africa Hi George, hope all is well for you guys.

We are seeing the same situation as you - it seems people are trying to invent a solution to a problem that doesn’t exist. So far, nothing is making significant progress.

The economics are just not there.

I am sure there are very limited situations, very small fields, roadways, power lines, etc that may make some sense, but for large scale agriculture the technology isn’t there yet. —Graham

Hi Bill.

September 2021 edition has arrived. I see in the editorial you’ve suffered a stroke, mongrel damn things. I know this and I hope you have a great recovery. I suffered one on the 16th December 2012 at 62. I, like you, am very happy that our youngest son Kent is taking over the flying. It seems some of us have to breed our replacements.

He is going very well. Pam and I are very happy that he’s doing a great job.

With complete left side paralysis, I got back driving after a year with the aid of a spinner on the steering wheel, which is connected to operate the high/low beam, wipers, and turn signals. I definitely know what you mean by a life changing event! I use a walking stick for assistance/security.

I doubt I’d manage two miles a day yet. It’s a long road to recovery, although you are obviously progressing very well. I was flying all the previous day, so I’m grateful it didn’t happen then.

It’s just the way things are…

Ken MacKenzie MacKenzie Aviation.

Goore. New Zealand Ken It was so very good to hear from you. I dearly appreciate your email. Only you and others like us and their families who have experienced a stroke really understand its full impact.

I keep improving, but the improvement rate has slowed to a crawl after six months. I’m told to expect this, so I do.

Fortunately, I’m fully mobile, just annoying issues with balance and left hand and leg function, but not serious. In fact, I have a trip to Brazil at the end of October for Ag Air Update. That surely will be a test!—Bill

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Charlotte County, Florida’s Sheriff’s Office (CCSO) has a history of thinking outside the box to get things done. The County’s Sheriff’s aviation unit has evolved from a traditional law-enforcement aviation unit to one that now supports the County to provide law enforcement support and aerial firefighting, search and rescue, and mosquito control services with their multirole aircraft.

For several decades, Charlotte County had provided mosquito control services via ground application methods and employed a contract applicator for aerial operations.

This changed in 2009 with the acquisition of a government surplus UH-1H helicopter by the County’s mosquito control division of the public works department, thus establishing a county-run aerial application program to augment ground-based operations.

Charlotte County’s program is overseen by Public Works Mosquito Control Manager Scott Schermerhorn and Operations Supervisor Jeff Proffitt, a commercially rated helicopter pilot. The county mosquito abatement program’s aviation component was initially run separately from the Sheriff’s Office aviation unit with the one county-owned asset and access to a second contract helicopter when needed during peak application periods.

Today’s aerial application division consists of two dozen staff during the peak periods; loaders, pilots, and staff tasked with the analysis of targeting which areas need to be treated from the public works department. Although the pilots in today’s aerial application operation now work for the Sheriff’s department, the maintenance and avionics technicians keep the aircraft in top shape.

The agency flies two UH-1H helicopters as primary aerial application platforms, but can also use two AS-350B3e platforms if needed.

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Charlotte County’s aerial application program consists of daytime larvicide application and nighttime adulticide application. Day operations can also encompass surveillance flights that may require pilots to drop biologists in the field to obtain samples for analysis that help the County decide, based on growth rates, which areas are the most critical in need of aerial application treatment within the County.

Application strategies do not only involve the use of aerial application; they can also result in the dispatching of ground support operations to spray an area via a truck if the situation warrants it. The helicopter is dispatched to areas either inaccessible by land or to cover a wider area more timely than can be achieved by ground application.

year, the unit will be required to fly more hours for re-application based on mosquitoes’ accelerated growth after periods of heavy rainfall.

A majority of the flying the unit completes in the mosquito control mission is conducted at night under NVG’s, a peak time for mosquito activity and yields a more practical application; however, some flights are conducted at dawn and daytime treatment flights delivering larvicide application.

Both larvicide and adulticide are primarily delivered wet; the County is experimenting with dry application of a granular product designed to break down over time that has an efficacy of two to three weeks, where the liquid application has an effectiveness of three to four days in the field.

However, the granular-based product still needs further investigation before becoming a permanent part of the county strategy in mosquito control.

The practical application, technology and science behind mosquito treatment products in a county that spans 858 square miles with 178 square miles of that being water are by no means randomly chosen. Instead, Charlotte County relies on a large team of experts with decades of experience, backed by technology and data from the United States Department of Agriculture that drives a well-healed program led by Jeff Proffitt, who supervises the technology piece of the pie for the County. Supervising teams of Biologists and technicians who plan and execute mosquito control throughout the County rely on continual data collected throughout each year to effectively plan the County’s approach to application on the ground and in the air.

The County typically flies 300 or more hours a year just on mosquito control missions alone, which according to Schermerhorn, can vary significantly based on weather. If there is more rain in a specific

The Charlotte County aviation unit is now at full capacity with four aircraft, two spray capable Bell UH-1H Huey helicopters. The larviciding helicopter is fitted with dual-use firefighting

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and Isolair spray systems. The county-run UH1H is set up for delivery of adulticide via rotary atomizers on the booms, with the other set up for delivering larvicide via standard nozzles.

Adulticide is delivered at an application rate of 0.6 ounces per acre, carrying approximately 60 gallons per load. The larvicide is applied at a rate of 16 ounces per acre with a 300-gallon load per flight.

Although the County primarily concentrates on pre-designated spray zones, there will always be a need to deviate at times through notifications of high concentration areas by county residents,

which is easily managed through the County’s partnership between the public works department and Sheriff’s Office and their highly coordinated joint management of the mosquito control operation.

In addition to field testing, the County’s biologists go above standard testing for mosquito treatment, going into the field to extract mosquito eggs that assist with calculating the volume of mosquito population per acre, which in turn, allows the loading crews to know what level of the mixture to add to the tanks for practical aerial application. ➤

Each of the agencies UH-1H helicopter’s is fitted with a multi purpose tank that can be used for both aerial application and aerial firefighting.

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Top: Charlotte County’s Aerial Application team is headed up by (from left) Operations Supervisor Jeff Proffitt, Sheriff’s Office Chief Pilot Shane Englauf and Program Manager Scot Schermerhorn.

Middle: Each UH-1H owned by the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office is a Vietnam Era Aircraft.

The agency recognizes that history by a tribute on the side of each aircraft.

Bottom: Each aircraft can be rapidly reconfigured for firefighting, aerial application or law enforcement by the agencies skilled team of mechanics and technicians.

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The County’s aircraft are a mix of the very newest technology and some of the oldest. The UH1H aircraft flown by the agency are more than 50 years old.

After the Sheriff’s office acquired two new AS350 helicopters, the existing UH-1H and the County-operated UH-1H, the agency’s chief pilot Shane Englauf suggested combining the county operations to encompass the Sheriff’s office taking over operational control of the second UH-1H. This involved repainting the aircraft to match the other and work from the agency’s avionics crew to continue adding an identical mission suite inside the aircraft that would allow for true multi-mission use of both aircraft when needed. However, the mosquito control aircraft is still used primarily for mosquito abatement work; it can also be used for aerial firefighting and law enforcement missions as situations evolve.

Charlotte County Government does, in effect, pay for all the services the combined aviation unit provides. The complexities of separate departmental budgets had previously been too much for each department to make work in an integrated environment. But, thanks to the overall commitment of the Sheriff, Fire Chief, public works department, and the Board of County Commissioners all working together through a departmental memorandum of understanding (MOU), along with a lot of time put in by Englauf and his staff to make it work, the operation has finally become a multi-mission success story by which others could base their multi-departmental process from.

The County’s aircraft are a mix of the very newest technology and some of the oldest. The UH-1H aircraft flown by the agency are more than 50 years old. Still, thanks to the high level of care provided and a comprehensive maintenance plan in addition to modern upgrades, the two older aircraft work perfectly alongside the very modern AS-350s the agency flies for law enforcement, SAR, and firefighting missions. Although in true form, each of the smaller aircraft can also be outfitted with spray systems, should there ever be a need for the smaller aircraft to participate in the aerial application process.

“Our mechanics Dan and Nathan have done an outstanding job in maintaining our aircraft; safety has just increased. We’ve never had backup engines before. Now we do, and all the electrical systems have been gone through from top to

bottom. We wouldn’t be where we are today without them,” said Englauf of his maintenance staff members, who are also both certified avionics technicians as well as A&P technicians.

Both Mechanics also function as crew chiefs on the aircraft when needed for any law enforcement, fire, or search and rescue operations.

Even though both pilots in the program are highly experienced pilots, Englauf, a decorated former Army pilot flying the OH-58D Kiowa in combat, and Jon Bautista, a veteran U.S. Marine and accomplished law enforcement pilot; Englauf ensures that adequate training is still provided for all aspects of the multi-use agency, including covering the aerial application aspect to ample NVG currency flights and specialized training on complex operations like search and rescue and firefighting. To assist with this, CCSO also employs external contractors that provide a great deal of their complex mission training and annual refresher training. CCSO has a longstanding relationship with Texas-based Brunner Aerospace, run by John Brunner, a former Air Force Colonel and Department of State pilot who now provides advanced training services to agencies around the country out of his base of operations in Georgetown, Texas.

In addition to pilot training, each pilot must complete 16 hours of continuing education to maintain their aerial application credentials.

The agency has recently hired a third pilot, he will complete his training and become operational next year, further augmenting the unit by providing additional pilot coverage when needed and increasing the agency’s ability to respond at a moment’s notice to anything within their vast mission requirements.

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maintain their aerial application credentials.

Lee County, Florida, seen as one of the gold standards for their aerial application program, also hosts a yearly fly-in that consists of a day of best practice training that the unit attends each year.

The aircraft pictured below is the agencies primary multi-purpose UH-1H, while the other performs primarily aerial application tasks for the county.

The agency primarily uses the ADAPCO Wingman aerial spray management system in the cockpit for aerial application purposes, coupled with the use of iPads that have been custom fitted to the cockpit with removable holsters in the instrument cluster on the dash.

The iPads assist the crews in tracking each aircraft’s flight path and any mapping needs for aerial application purposes. With most of the agency’s application occurring at night, doing low-level flight at around 90 knots, a lot of care is taken by crews to map out areas for obstacles, including low wires that can be a hazard when flying at an average of 100 feet off the ground for aerial application work.

Unlike many aerial application operations that fly single pilot, for added safety, the agency flies

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aerial application missions with a pilot and TFO in the aircraft at all times. According to Englauf, while not traditional or typical, it adds a whole new level of safety by having a second set of eyes in the cockpit, not just for observing but to monitor systems onboard the aircraft and assist in the cockpit resource management. This lightens the load of the pilot in command and provides an advantage in increased situational awareness, which Englauf views as essential for ongoing safe operations.

The Charlotte County Sheriff’s Office and the County government of Charlotte County have spent years developing what some would say is a leading government-based program in not just aerial application but multimission capabilities that rival agencies with much larger fleets and much larger budgets.

Through sheer determination and a great deal of interdepartmental cooperation, the County provides an aviation unit that gives value for money in spades for the citizens of Charlotte County, Florida.

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CRAYMER’S COUNSEL

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Hot Section Inspections Maintenance time is just ahead for many operators. Shops are starting to fill out schedules for off-season work. One of the maintenance items that is frequently discussed is the need for an engine hot section inspection. While hot section inspection time requirements may differ by engine model, the “mid TBO” recommendation usually applies. Performance loss can also dictate the need for an inspection.

For example, the PT6A-34AG engine TBO (Time Between Overhauls) is 4000 hours, and hot sections are recommended at 2000 hours.

For the PT6A-65AG, the basic engine TBO is 3000 hours, and the recommended hot section inspection is 1500 hours. All this information exists for all engine models in various Pratt A 20 | agairupdate.com

& Whitney Canada service bulletins. Time constraints are listed in service bulletins, but each engine model’s maintenance manual defines the hot section inspection criteria.

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Fretting, wear, cracking, and rubbing all have a chance to exist in the hot section, and all can negatively affect your engine’s performance.

When the engine is split to perform the hot section inspection, one of the first tasks is to measure the compressor turbine blade tip clearance. Tip clearance is one of the key areas for efficiency. On a PT6A-34AG, for example, the median tip clearance is .013”. That is only the thickness of a couple of business cards.

That clearance is awfully close for a disk that spins thousands of revolutions per minute in temperatures of hundreds of degrees. When those tip clearances begin to increase, you lose performance. In the cockpit, that means the engine is not making power because of temperature limitations.

when needed. Preventative maintenance and inspections are also a way to keep costs down.

If problems can be detected early and repaired, it is less expensive than replacing parts like a vane ring or turbine blades.

As we head into maintenance season this year, review your engine times and be sure to discuss the need for a hot section inspection. You want to make sure once you get through the downtime, the airplane and engine are primed and ready for another successful spray season.

Please reach out to me at robertc@ covingtonaircraft.com if you have any questions, and I’ll be glad to assist.

Left: Segment Grinding.

Right Top: CT Blade Tips.

Right Bottom: Hot Section Overview.

After tip clearances are measured, the turbine disk is removed, and the rest of the hot section parts are checked for deterioration, distress, or other problems. Once repairs are made, and issues addressed, components are resurfaced and resealed as needed. The compressor turbine blade tip clearance is reset to get maximum efficiency by changing and/or grinding the segments. Then the hot section is reinstalled.

That is a basic overview.

There are additional requirements as part of the inspection. Bleed valve and compressor condition must be checked. The gas generator case has inspection criteria. The fuel nozzles, the power turbine stator and housing, exhaust duct, oil strainers, oil filters, and chip detectors are also checked. No one wants to invest time and money into a hot section only to find out the compressor has issues and the engine must be removed. What if you find out that the gearboxes are making metal? Perhaps distress in your hot section is being caused by a fuel nozzle issue? Proper inspection of all parts and fulfilling all inspection criteria are essential when it comes to hot section inspection.

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by Ted Delanghe An oft-quoted maxim is that a chain is only as strong as its weakest link. Although this has a literal meaning – picture those huge links on the anchor chain of a large ocean-going ship – the figurative meaning usually applies to the people, technology, or administrative steps in a particular process. If any one of these is not performing up to the level of the rest, reduced productivity will be a direct result.

One of the clearest examples of the truth of that maxim has to do with a turbine-powered race car, specifically, the 550 HP P&W powered STP Paxton, designed by Andy Granatelli’s STP Division of Studebaker Corporation. The car was a phenomenal performer, easily beating pistonengine cars on both acceleration and top end.

Parnelli Jones, one of the top drivers of that era, qualified the car in 1967 for the Indianapolis 500, earning the sixth-starting spot. In the race, Jones took the lead on the first lap and was never worse than third. With three laps to go, Jones has a 52 second lead over the pack, when a $6 bearing in the gearbox failed, ending the dream of an Indy win for the team.

The first “space-age racing car” took three years and millions of dollars to design and build, adopting a wide range of leading-edge technology. But all for naught as the weakest link, in this case, was that $6 bearing.

(Interestingly enough, shortly thereafter turbines were banned from the Indy 500).

A lot of owners/operators in the ag flying business can relate to this story. On the technology side, there are plenty of examples where links large and small can stop the action.

You’ve got a new very expensive aircraft that can cover a lot of ground in a hurry, but the water pump on the mixing/loading rig fails just as you are about to load. The bearing in the fan pump fails the second you open the “money handle”.

A tail wheel catches a sharp stone and goes flat.

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On the administrative side of things, a work order misses a critical item about the organic farmer next door downwind from the field you are about to treat, with a resulting huge drift claim. And on the people side, fatigue sets in and an incident occurs (hopefully with just minor consequences).

I had one of these incidents a few years back when spraying a herbicide in wheat to control volunteer canola. I departed the airstrip for the field, and on my first survey of the field, it looked more like a canola crop than wheat. I rechecked the work order again and it seemed I had the right field. But I didn’t like the looks of things so headed back to the strip with the full load. The landing was no problem as the strip was plenty long enough.

On the people side, fatigue sets in and an incident occurs.

Back at the mixer/loader, I told the owner what had happened. He said he knew the field in question, and it was “for sure” seeded with wheat. We even called the farmer who did the seeding and he again confirmed it was a wheat field.

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as it was only seven miles away. So we did just that, and upon arrival, the farmer was standing in a field on the west side of the road that marked the field boundary i.e. just across the road from the field I had been about the spray.

That field has been seeded in canola!

We had also brought along the work order which the farmer had prepared. “Well darn it!” he said after looking at it, “I guess I just got my east and west mixed up!”

For the rest of that season, every time I flew near that “for sure wheat field”, I could see a blank area about 45 feet wide and about 50 feet long that gave me the willies. The weak link in this chain just happened to be a farmer who was directionally challenged. The following are some suggestions for keeping the chain and its many links as strong as can be.

Choose Your People Wisely From a productivity point of view, the aircraft and pilot are just one of many links – albeit the most visible links - that go into making an aerial application operation a success. But from the time the office staff gets a call from a local producer to filling out a work order, mixing the right products at the correct rate, getting the work order to the pilot in a timely manner, etc., having well trained and motivated staff along a well-organized workflow is key to successful operations.

Ensure all your employees clearly know their responsibilities, which begins off-season with well-planned training sessions. Try not to micromanage, always looking over their shoulders, and along this line, encourage an open atmosphere where people can ask questions freely. It’s much better to hear about a small leak in the hull long before it becomes a major disaster.

Winning the Paper War Spend time and effort making sure the paper trail from initial contact with a producer to finished operation is in good order, and ensure it is user-friendly. Having a pilot or any of your team fill out reams of unnecessary paperwork is counterproductive to an efficient operation.

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required for each trip. There are a lot of great publications available from your state and national aerial application associations that can really help in building a streamlined operation.

The record I’ve seen for not doing that happened a few years back when we were doing a forestry spray contract for a government agency. There was one form in particular with 22 blocks that had to be filled out each and every flight, plus, the forms had to be completed in triplicate at the end of the day/flight session. It wasn’t pretty.

Effective Communications Ensuring the right information gets to the right people at the right time is always a challenge, but even more so when things start to get busy.

One field that is incorrectly treated by mistake not only hurts the bottom line but doesn’t do great things for the aerial applicator’s reputation.

In particular, try to avoid last-minute verbal instructions such as “..start your application 15 swaths in from the west side.” It might work, and it might not, but is taking the chance worth it?

How to avoid weak links? Probably continue just what you have been doing. Being conscientious about your people and your equipment. Keeping spare parts in stock or knowing where you can get replacements in a hurry. And a self-audit once a year is also a good idea, again using any of numerous excellent state or national ag aviation association publications as your guide.

I will leave you with a Benjamin Franklin quote.

“For want of a nail, the shoe was lost. For want of a shoe, the horse was lost. For want of a horse, the rider was lost. For want of a rider, the battle was lost. And all for want of a horseshoe nail.”

Make sure you have the nails – and the strong links – necessary for your aerial application business to succeed. It will always return great dividends along the way.

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Turbine Conversions, Ltd founders Bill and Nancy Hatfield have been pioneers in the singleengine air tanker equipment with their Hatfield Hydraulic Fire Gate. The gate was designed in response to requests by SEAT pilots needing a reliable system that could live up to the demands of the operation.

The innovation of the Hatfield Hydraulic Fire Gate, which received STC SA00961CH in 1998, filled this request. Bill & Nancy’s involvement in the early days of the Single Engine Air Tanker Association (Bill as President and Nancy as Secretary) helped establish the foundation of the SEAT program as we see today in the United States.

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fighting fires on both sides of the Equator and are now is approved by ANAC Brazil.

“TCL has been working to bring their fire gate technology to Brazil and is pleased with the recent ANAC approval. Our fire gate will be an essential tool in supporting the emerging firefighting program in Brazil. Approved for all models of Air Tractor (402,502, 602 and 802) makes it unique. The Hatfield Fire Gate’s innovative longitudinal opening design features a less than 2-second full salvo drop, four-level settings, Emergency Dump safety feature, lightweight design, and proven reliable hydraulic system making it a leader in the industry. All fire gates are manufactured in a PMA FAA-approved facility located in Nunica, Michigan, USA. There is also a bypass adapter available so that aircraft can continue to make liquid spray applications while the fire gate is installed, expanding the potential of the gate without any extra work.

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downtime. This is why it is so important to have this infrastructure in place,” said Bill Hatfield, developer of the Hatfield Fire Gate and president of TCL, “We never want one of our customers to be down for any reason. Their safety is our first priority.”

The first two fire gates are already in Brazil, with more shipping soon. We are very excited to be working with AeroGlobo Aeronaves’ client Aeroterra Aviação Agricola Ltd located in Bahia state. Aeroterra Aviação Agricola is a pioneer in the single-engine firefighting program and already has one Hatfield Fire Gates installed and working, with a second one scheduled to be installed soon as part of their operation.

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Compliance with Service Bulletins may or may not be mandatory, but you should never ignore them when it comes to safety.

is providing important information about your aircraft.

Are Service Bulletins Mandatory?

2. Help you detect trends and spot weaknesses.

The short answer is — it depends. If you are operating your aircraft under 14 CFR part 91, a service bulletin is advisory, and compliance is not mandatory unless it is included in an Airworthiness Directive. Keep in mind that even when a service bulletin is not mandatory, you should always pay attention to it as a means to ensure your safety. Let’s unpack this further.

Are Service Bulletins the Same as Airworthiness Directives?

No. The FAA issues Airworthiness Directives (ADs) and aircraft manufacturers issue Service Bulletins (SBs). ADs are legally enforceable regulations, in accordance with 14 CFR part 39, to correct an unsafe condition that exists in a product. Compliance with an AD is mandatory for continued airworthiness.

Service Bulletins: 1. Inform you about the manufacturer’s recommended inspection and maintenance items for your aircraft.

3. Advise you about items that may be wearing faster than anticipated or items that you or your mechanic might overlook.

When a SB displays the words “Mandatory,” “Alert,” or “Emergency” in big red letters, it is emphasizing a significant safety concern, and manufacturers may ask the FAA to issue a specific AD to address the unsafe condition.

These mandatory SBs can also get included in an AD as an additional source of information about the unsafe condition. If a SB is included in an AD, then compliance with that SB is mandatory for continued airworthiness.

However, do not ignore “recommended” or “optional” SBs. Take note and ask your mechanic to check these items during inspection.

Manufacturers issue aircraft Service Bulletins in response to identified maintenance and manufacturing defect issues to give owners and operators critical and useful information about aircraft safety, maintenance, or product improvement. Compliance may or may not be required depending on the type of operation and whether or not it is included in an AD.

Make it a best practice to read, or ask your mechanic to review, any SB that the manufacturer issues for your aircraft. If cost is a concern, discuss this with your mechanic to determine the best course of action. The SB may only be reporting a product improvement that does not affect airworthiness or your safety.

If Service Bulletins are not Mandatory, Can I Ignore Them?

Here’s What Can Happen If You Ignore a Service Bulletin

No. Manufacturers issue SBs to call attention to improvements you should make to enhance your safety. It is also just good sense to heed the advice of the aircraft manufacturer who

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the fuel quantity indicating system to verify that each fuel gauge showed the precise fuel amount.

It also required an initial inspection within 100 hours of operation and subsequent recurring inspections every 12 months. Examination of the airplane’s maintenance logbooks revealed no evidence of compliance with the mandatory SB. The aircraft was a total loss. Fortunately, the pilot and passenger survived with minor injuries, but it could have been much worse.

They learned an expensive lesson about the importance of SBs. Where Can I Find Service Bulletins For My Aircraft?

SBs are available online, and they are free. Take a look at any engine or airframe manufacturer’s website and you’ll find up to date information on the safety issues identified from accident reports, service difficulty reports, and any other data used for safety analysis and product improvement.

You can also find information, guidance, recommendations, and airworthiness concerns for your aircraft free of charge in the FAA’s Special Airworthiness Information Bulletin (SAIB) database at bit.ly/SAIBdatabase. It is searchable

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2021 NAAA/NAAREF Fall Board Meeting: Centennial, Togetherness and Substantive Planning for Ag Aviation’s Healthy Future Last week your National Agricultural Aviation Research & Education Foundation (NAAREF) and National Agricultural Aviation Association’s (NAAA) board, committee and staff members met in Fort Worth, Texas, to conduct business for the betterment of the U.S. agricultural aviation industry.

The meetings began with the presenters of the Professional Aerial Applicators’ Support System (PAASS) gathering to fine-tune and practice the program’s 2021–2022 PAASS curriculum, which will focus on preventing the likely fatal results of flying into IIMC or Inadvertent Instrument Meteorological Conditions. Also, substantive data on applying efficaciously and environmentally in a crosswind will be presented in the upcoming PAASS season that starts today in Michigan. NAAREF committees also met to consider future curriculum for the program that will include increasing ag pilots’ awareness when flying around wires and highlighting an operation undergoing a chemical storage risk management audit to maximize security and safety.

NAAA’s Political Action Committee—AgAv PAC— hosted a breakfast at the meetings for U.S. Rep. Beth Van Duyne (R-TX) whose district includes Irving, Texas. The Congresswoman serves on the Aviation Subcommittee of the House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure, as well as the House Small Business Committee. The Aviation Subcommittee has jurisdiction over all aspects of civil aviation, including safety topics B 4 | agairupdate.com

related to marking and logging of towers in rural areas—an issue of paramount importance for the agricultural aviation industry—in fact, Congresswoman Van Duyne offered her services to move the FAA to promulgate the tower-marking statute NAAA successfully urged Congress to enact in 2018 and offered her service on the Small Business Committee to press action of federal officials to help our industry’s small business aerial applicators.

The general session of the board, once called to order by 2021 NAAA Mark Kimmel of Mississippi, followed precedent with an overview of the status of the association and ag aviation industry by Andrew Moore, NAAA’s chief executive officer.

He began with stating positive ag economic statistics that USDA is forecasting for 2021 net farm income--$113 billion—up $15 billion from 2020. The 2021 income is less dependent on government dependency from 2020 when $46 billion subsidized agriculture versus $28 billion in 2021—a decline of 40%. In addition, cash receipts for crops were up 20% in 2021. This is due to record ag exports of $173.5 billion in 2021 for a $16 billion surplus this year. USDA projects 2022 exports at $177.5 billion for an $18 billion surplus. Much of the trade is due to the phase 1 trade agreement with China and the Trump Administration. China purchased $16.7 billion in U.S. ag products in 2020, $37 billion in 2021 and $39 billion in 2022. Farm expenses, such as aerial application services, were $383.5 billion for 2021, up 7% compared to 2020. ➤

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Moore then referenced numbers from the NAAA survey to U.S. ag aviation operators conducted towards the 2021 season’s end. Of the 17.1% that participated, it indicated that the number of hours flown per ag aircraft increased 22% from 274.5 hours in 2020 to 334.5 hours in 2021.

The 8-year average number of hours flown per aircraft is 316.1 hours, which 2021 hurdled by 6%. 2.56 ag aircraft were used per operation in 2021, compared to 2.26 aircraft in 2020—up 13%--and up 11.3% from the 8-year average of 2.3 aircraft. 80% of operators treated either significantly more (25%), somewhat more (32%) or the same number of acres (22%) in 2021 compared with 2020. 20% of operators treated somewhat fewer (10%) or significantly fewer (10%) acres in 2021 compared to 2020. The fewer acres treated were largely due to operators in the West and Upper Midwest that were affected by severe drought. Operators upbeat about the 2022 season made up 43%. Those unwilling to declare optimism were concerned about additional drought and burdensome government policies.

Moore then discussed the NAAA’s most significant service to the industry—ensuring that EPA approves the use of pesticides for aerial use. This year NAAA commented on over 50 pesticides and their need to keep aerial use on the label—NAAA has commented to keep aerial use registrations on 224 pesticides since 2017.

Moore mentioned that the herbicide paraquat and the miticide propargite were slated for significant reductions in aerial uses initially until NAAA’s comments, using more realistic use methods and data, saved many of the chemicals’ aerial uses. NAAA has also made head roads with chemical companies and EPA to test the flight physics of lightweight and multi-rotor drones to ensure their spray pattern is efficacious and environmentally sound.

Moore then discussed the current administration and Congress’ focus on reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Efforts are afoot to reward growers that sequester carbon. NAAA has been actively advocating to the USDA, EPA, and Congress on aerial’s environmental benefits sequestering carbon. For example, in recent comments to the USDA, NAAA calculated statistics from collected data confirming that ag aviation efficacy, B 6 | agairupdate.com

timeliness and protection of a crop increases yields thereby protecting 27.4 million acres of carbon-sequestering natural land that would have to be converted to cropland annually if aerial application didn’t exist. Moreover, aerial seeding of cover crops sequesters 1.9 million metric tons of CO2 or 412,000 carbon-combustion auto engines. Increasing cover-crops 15% in the U.S. would further sequester 11.9 million metric tons of CO2 annually. Moore then stated that the latest, multi-trillion-dollar reconciliation bill developed by congressional agricultural leaders in the House of Representatives includes $28 billion for agriculture--$5 billion for farmers that cover crop.

Next presented was news that the FAA’s Obstruction Evaluation Group has again delayed promulgating the tower-marking and logging statute NAAA lobbied successfully for in the 2018 FAA Reauthorization law. Not to be deterred, NAAA is administering congressional pressure in the form of a letter from Ranking Member of the House Transportation Committee, U.S. Rep. Sam Graves, to FAA Administrator Dickson, to promptly move the regulation forward to save low-altitude pilots’ lives before even more towers are erected.

Moore then discussed the tremendous public relations success related to NAAA’s three-anda-half-year preparation extolling the history, importance and advancement of the industry on this centennial year, mentioned the following: • The unveiling of Agaviation100.com, a website designed for the media to simplify their reporting about the industry’s first 100 years, including stories, statistics, photos, videos, documentaries and a timeline covering 10 decades.

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• The construction of a detailed timeline of the industry’s key events designed and produced for public events and museums.

• Several media events from EAA’s AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, to Jackson, Mississippi, to multiple media events in the Washington, D.C., metropolitan held. Attending have been the media, key policymakers and coalition partners. Many more such events are to come and will continue to be organized, including an event on Washington, D.C.’s National Mall and concluding at Oshkosh 2022.

• An NAAA facilitated donation of an Air Tractor AT-400 in the form of the Disney movie Plane’s lead character “Dusty Crophopper,” donated by Rusty and Lea Lindeman to the Smithsonian Institution’s National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center—the second-largest aviation museum in the world, receiving over 1.6 million visitors each year.

Moore announced that according to Agility PR Solutions’ media monitoring service, over a 30-day period that includes most of August 2021, the campaign netted nearly 200 media mentions nationwide associated with the industry’s centennial, with a potential audience reach of 400 million consumers. The ad value equivalency for that amount of coverage is worth $10 million (versus a few hundred thousand dollars spent by NAAA to execute the campaign).

The list of media entities covering the centennial in the “In the News” section of AgAviation100. com, including articles from Smithsonian magazine, RFD-TV, Farm Journal, AOPA and syndicated stories from The Associated Press.

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Breakfast on Dec. 6 will have as its speaker John Stossel, 19-time Emmy-winning reporter of ABC’s 20/20, Fox Business News, and Stossel TV, who has been hailed as “the most consistently thought-provoking TV reporter of our time.” Also mentioned was the Dec. 7. General Session which will premiere an elongated 15-minute film of the 100-year history of the industry followed by a panel of industry veterans discussing the industry’s history and a panel of industry leaders forecasting the future of the industry. There will be 26 educational sessions with 23 states offering continuing educational units on subjects ranging from aerial application technology to pilot safety to new agrichemicals. The show floor will have over 130 exhibitors with 13 aircraft from vintage to new to rotorcraft to auction aircraft, such as an Ag Cat, G-164 A, two-seat, open cockpit bi-plane donated by Darrel and Deb Mertens. Also, Pratt & Whitney Canada will be donating a PT6A-34 turbine engine.

Membership figures were discussed next and through September of 2021 NAAA has 531 operator members and 436 pilot members for a total of 1,551 members, compared to 583 total operator members, 463 pilot members and 1,654 total members in 2020. There are 1,560 operators in the U.S. and 2,028 pilot members according to NAAA’s 2019 Aerial Application Industry Survey. NAAA completed its 2020-2021 fiscal year with a surplus of $321,157 and NAAREF completed its fiscal year with a surplus of $68,096. The surplus was due to reduced staff through attrition, reduced travel expenses, and also generous centennial celebration donations. NAAA spends $1,398.28 per member based on $2.119 million in expenses and 1,521 members. NAAA member dues only account for 33.6% of total expenses.

It costs $1.63 per day for operators to belong to NAAA and $0.68 per day for pilots to belong.

Moore concluded by making some near and longer-term forecasts. In the short term he recommended that operators prepare for fuel and chemical shortages. This has been a big topic in the ag press and NAAA heard from a number of operators in the Pacific Northwest about not being able to access adequate fuel supplies during the summer of 2021. Many variables have been raised as to why, including ➤

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China still trying to build up its chemical supply since the Trump trade embargo and due to more herbicide demand due to weed tolerance. COVID and a reduced labor supply due to government unemployment subsidies are also a factor as well as the freeze in the South over the winter that shuttered movement of supplies. To address this situation installing extra tanks for fuel, fertilizer and chemical storage was recommended as was retailing product because that moves a purchaser more toward the head of the queue when purchasing directly from a manufacturer, plus it directly shows chemical manufacturers who is purchasing the product and as such they will work harder to register such product for ag aviation buyers.

According to NAAA’s year-end 2021 survey, 49% of ag aviation operators retail some or all of their product.

Moore concluded by stating that in the longer term—during the industry’s next century—we will see a professional agricultural aviator certification standard providing those with that designation in the industry more benefits; there will be more automation allowing ag pilots to focus more on obstacles and the industry will get more and more into aerial imaging and precision, variable rate application.

The session then adjourned and the NAAA and NAAREF Boards and Committees conducted the following key business on behalf of the agricultural aviation industry.

Allied and Convention Committees: It was discussed that the Savannah Convention Center is expanding with construction currently underway on the northeast side of the building to double its size, but this reconstruction should have no effect on NAAA 2021 convention. The committees relayed a reminder that the early registration (before November 5th) convention price for NAAA members will be $270 per B 10 | agairupdate.com

member (not including meal functions) and $1,005 for non-members (not including meal functions) so attendees are encouraged to join NAAA. In addition, day passes would be raised for non-members to $380 per day at the 2021 convention, then to $480 per day in 2022 and $580 per day in 2023 to encourage non-members to join the NAAA. The day rate for an NAAA member is $245.

Awards Committee: The committee determined the following awards that will be presented at the Excellence in Ag Aviation Banquet on Thursday, Dec. 9, in Savannah at the convention: • Opal & Bill Binnion Memorial Award – Glenn Martin • Zoren & Joan O’Brien Memorial Outstanding Award – Two recipients: Rusty Lindeman and Damon Reabe • Related Industry Award – Eric Rojek • Delta Air Lines “Puffer” Award – Troy Reabe • Allied Industry Individual Award – Terry Humphrey • John Robert Horne Memorial Award – Mikel Hofer • Evans-Christopher Operation S.A.F.E. Award – Dr. Scott Bretthauer More details about the awardees and their accomplishments will be presented at the Excellence in Ag Aviation Banquet on Thursday, Dec. 9, in Savannah at the convention and in the Winter 2022 issue of Agricultural Aviation magazine.

Budget & Finance Committee: 2021 Treasurer Dwayne O’Brien provided details about the NAAA 2020-2021 audit (see numbers in CEO report above) and the September 2021 NAAA financials. The Board accepted a motion to approve the 2020-2021 NAAA Audit.

Communications Committee: The committee encouraged all to read the book “Agriculture’s Air Force: 100 Years of Aerial Application,” and to provide it to their farmer customers in addition to their local libraries and museum gift shops to sell. marketplace. agairupdate.com/products/100thanniversary-coffee-table-book Governing Documents: The committee discussed consolidation of NAAA committees and encouraged committee chairs to work together to see if efficiencies might be made by consolidating panels of similar objectives, for example, Research and Technology possibly merging with Precision Agriculture and Allied possibly merging with Convention.

Government Relations: In addition to the issues discussed above, more discussion occurred in regard to supply concerns related to fuel and crop inputs. One recommendation was made that fuel supply issues are much less likely if buying from a branded fuel company and not a fuel surplus company. Fuel prices may be more expensive for a branded fuel company, but delivery of fuel is much more likely.

In addition, NAAA is looking into this issue in more depth to ensure more likely delivery of fuel supplies for aerial applicators using fuel for farmers growing food, fiber and biofuel crops.

Insurance: Many topics from sharing opinions on a professional aerial application certification program to aerial application education was discussed. The committee will be providing a substantive magazine article for Agricultural Aviation on how aerial application operators can sell insurance underwriters and brokers on their professionalism—from being claim free to belonging to professional trade associations to actively participating in recurring training—and be rewarded as such with lower rates. ➤

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Long Range Planning: The Long Range Planning Committee discussed a series of very forward issues including recommending to NAAREF to undergo the construction of a tiered program, similar to a certification program, where ranks of ag aviation professionalism would be classified by tiers where the first tier would be more basic and include having the necessary licenses to make aerial applications; tier two might include tier 1 and belonging to regional and national associations; tier three would include the first two tiers and, in addition, might include annual recurrent training via PAASS, Operation S.A.F.E., etc. The objective being constructing a program that may lead to benefits—from better insurance rates, etc. for those in the more advanced tiers due to efforts made to mitigate risk.

The committee also discussed the success of the recent centennial anniversary’s public relations campaign of the agricultural aviation industry that NAAA undertook. With such a significant public reach, the committee established a directive to conduct an audit of the association’s communications to determine if the focus of its resources would be better served attaining more positive public relations compared to publishing a magazine or other communication’s mediums.

Membership: Four NAAA “Ag Wings of Tomorrow” Scholarship recipients were chosen and will be notified soon. The “Ag Wings of Tomorrow” Scholarship is sponsored by BASF and Thrush, and each 2021 recipient will receive a $5,000 scholarship.

In addition, the committee discussed creating a 30 to 60-second video highlighting and marketing the benefits of NAAA membership in the PAASS Program, in social media and elsewhere.

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Museum: The committee discussed a number of interesting projects and the additional funds bequeathed to the National Agricultural Aviation Museum and Hall of Fame in Jackson, Miss. by the estate of NAAA’s first president, the late Dick Reade. These projects include obtaining an Aeronca Champ aircraft, and a Pratt & Whitney R-1340 piston engine cutaway. The new digital, touchscreen kiosks highlighting all of the Hall of Fame recipients donated by AgAir Update was also discussed and the information on the kiosks will also be available on the internet.

Nominating: The Nominating Committee nominated the 2022 NAAA officer team, which will voted on at the next board meeting Sunday, Dec. 5, 2021. The nominated officers are: • President – Jim Perrin (WI) • Vice President – Craig Craft (NC) • Secretary – Ray Newcomb (Northeast) • Treasurer – Darrel Mertens (CO) Precision Agriculture and Research & Technology Committees: A number of research projects were discussed by these two committees in addition to encouraging researchers develop and/or fine-tune, such as see-andspray technology to “sliders” that are equipped in front of nozzles on the aircraft that generates an airflow that drives the droplets into the crops through downwash potentially further mitigating drift and augmenting efficacy.

Safety and Federal Aviation Regulations: The committee discussed a company out of Australia named Balmoral that has created powerline markers. The product is highly complimented by key Australian ag aviation industry representatives. NAAA has reached out to the company, and they are now attending/exhibiting at the Ag Aviation Expo.

Support: The committee discussed the 2021-2022 Athena Program theme which will focus on dealing with crew stress. Programs are being presented in CO, LA, NE, PNW, Mid-States and Tri-States. In addition, the committee will host a Savannah Riverboat cruise with lunch, sponsored by GarrCo Products, on Monday, Dec. 6, with the Athena Program taking place on Wednesday, December 8th. They will also be hosting a 50/50 raffle at the convention. The committee’s $3,000 scholarship program essay theme for 2022 will remain “What role does ag aviation play in producing a local commodity?”

National Agricultural Aviation Research & Education Foundation: The NAAREF Board may potentially have the gift of the proceeds from the sale of an Ag Cat that will be donated for auction at the convention. More information on that will be forthcoming.

Also at the convention, the NAAREF session will showcase Air Tractor’s Turn Smart 2, a safe turn video featuring astronaut Mike Mullane telling pilots to detour from normalization of deviance.

It will also feature ag pilot and aerobatic professional Steve Gustafson of Team Aeroshell on turning aircraft safely.

The NAAREF Board also discussed the rising rates of insurance. It was also discussed that while insurance underwriters do look at the professionalism of pilots, such as membership, PAASS, etc. they may not require PAASS attendance for insurance. Much discussion went into the considerable reduction of accidents and drift incidents that have occurred over the past 23 years due to PAASS participation, even though less than half of ag aviation operators and pilots attend the program. As such, NAAREF brought the following motion to the NAAA Board which was approved: ➤

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The National Agricultural Aviation Association (NAAA) and the National Agricultural Aviation Research and Education Foundation (NAAREF) advocate annual participation in the Professional Aerial Applicators’ Support System’s (PAASS) program for U.S. agricultural aviation operators and pilots due to the program’s proven ability to markedly reduce aerial application accidents and reduce drift occurrences.

Since the PAASS program was made available to the industry in 1999, the aerial application industry has seen a 25.27% decrease in accidents and a 26% decrease in drift occurrences. This marked reduction in accidents and drift occurrences happened with approximately 47% of agricultural aviation operators and pilots attending the program (of the approximately 3,400 ag pilots in the U.S. only 1,593 attended the 2019-2020 PAASS Program).

Between 2014 and 2020, of the 333 agricultural aviation accidents that occurred, 117 were from pilots that had not attended PAASS; 52 were from pilots that had attended PAASS once; 41 were from pilots that had attended PAASS twice; 39 were from pilots that attended PAASS three times; 37 were from pilots that attended PAASS four times and 47 were from pilots that attended PAASS five times.

Agricultural aviation accidents and drift occurrences result in more expenses for the insurance industry in the form of legal costs, equipment costs and crop damage costs.

Conversely, these accident and drift occurrences result in higher insurance costs for agricultural aviation operators and pilots. As such, NAAA and NAAREF request that the agricultural aviation insurance industry require annual PAASS participation from all agricultural aviation operators and pilots that they insure.

Before the conclusion of the meeting NAAA Secretary Sue Stewart presented a $3,000 NAAREF donation from the New Mexico Agricultural Aviation Association.

It was also announced that they the Illinois Agricultural Aviation Association is sponsoring the PAASS Program for the 2021-2022 at $5,000 and Arkansan Brenda Watts (2016 Past President) announced that the Arkansas golf tournament proceeds will be donated to the NAAA’s 100th anniversary campaign.

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Accident Or Incident?

Explaining Aircraft Damage Assessment

By Mike Hodges, Air Safety Investigator, and Clint Crookshanks, Aerospace Engineer (Structures) When an aircraft crashes, National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) air safety investigators and aerospace engineers must determine if the event can be classified as an accident or an incident, as defined by Title 49 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) Part 830.

An accident is: “…an occurrence associated with the operation of an aircraft which takes place between the time any person boards the aircraft with the intention of flight and all such persons have disembarked, and in which any person suffers death or serious injury, or in which the aircraft receives substantial damage.”

Figure 1. A Cessna 170 airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing, due to ground impact after an aerodynamic stall on takeoff in Arctic Village, Alaska.

An incident is: “…an occurrence other than an accident, associated with the operation of an aircraft, which affects or could affect the safety of operations.”

Figure 2. An Enstrom F280-F helicopter sustained substantial

Although the determination of an accident focuses on damage as well as injuries, here we will focus on damage assessment.

So, when assessing the damage, how do we decide what’s an accident and what’s an incident? When we’re first notified about an adverse aircraft event, we begin to assess the aircraft damage. NTSB investigators and engineers attempt to obtain as much information as possible about the damage. Sometimes we’re given information that makes it obvious the aircraft sustained substantial damage, such as the photos showing the extent of the damage (see Figures 1–3). Figures 1-3 show the substantial damage as indicated by the arrows.

damage to the tail boom, during a practice run-on landing in Sodus, New York.

Figure 3. A Piper PA-24-250 airplane sustained substantial damage to the left wing, after impacting a light pole during an instrument approach in Sturgis, South Dakota. ➤

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Other times, we can’t tell the extent of damage right away and we need to dig deeper.

Figures 4- 6 illustrate this scenario and show the substantial damage as indicated by the arrows. For figure 4, additional information surrounding the circumstances of the object impact, a tracked drilling unit, along with the damage sustained to the main rotor blades was obtained from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and the operator.

Figure 4. A Eurocopter AS 350 B3 helicopter sustained substantial damage to the main rotor blades after impacting a tracked drilling unit in Delta Junction, Alaska.

Figure 5. A Cessna 208B airplane sustained substantial damage to the right wing due to a bird strike in Sacramento, California.

For figure 5, the airplane’s structural repair manual for the damage sustained to the right wing from the bird strike was studied during the damage assessment process. For figure 6, the interior of the fuselage had to be inspected to identify the substantial damage sustained during the hard landing sequence.

When the damage sustained is not obviously substantial, NTSB air safety investigators and aerospace engineers may take additional steps to assess wreckage, such as the following: • Working with pilots, operators, mechanics, repair stations, FAA Flight Standards District Offices, aviation insurance adjustors, and aircraft recovery companies to obtain additional damage photographs or damage information • Consulting the airframe manufacturer’s air safety and engineering departments • Obtaining documents, such as the structural repair manual or illustrated parts catalog, from the airframe manufacturer • Considering other unique factors that may determine the damage level, such as airframe fire damage or the aircraft being immersed in a body of water • Inspecting the area in question (such as spars in wings, structural areas behind firewalls, driveshafts in helicopters, gearboxes in helicopters, etc.) once the aircraft is recovered • Removing components, panels, or skin and using tools to access hard-to-view areas (such as mirrors or electronic borescopes)

We would also determine:

Figure 6. A Beech 1900C airplane sustained substantial damage to the lower aft fuselage after a hard landing in Gambell, Alaska.

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• if the damaged area is classified as a primary structure (primary structure is defined by the FAA as that structure which carries flight, ground, or pressurization loads, and whose failure would reduce the structural integrity) • what repairs are required • which components will be replaced to repair the damaged area • if the aircraft’s performance or flight characteristics were affected ➤

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The damage assessment timeline can vary, depending on how obvious the damage is initially. We might make a substantial determination in a few hours, or, if additional information is needed, the damage assessment can take several weeks. If the aircraft needs to be recovered from a remote area to obtain additional information, the damage assessment could extend even longer.

Although the FAA is always a party member to our investigations, the NTSB is the final authority for determining a damage classification. For those that are involved in an adverse aircraft event, some basic knowledge can help during the assessment, such as: • Understanding the definitions and reporting requirements in 49 CFR Part 830

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• Knowing how to directly contact the NTSB • Having multiple, high-quality, highdefinition photographs from all around the aircraft, showing the aircraft in its entirety • Having multiple, high-quality, highdefinition photographs of the damaged areas, including close-ups • Knowing what repairs are required to the damaged area, along with what components will be replaced to repair the damage (when possible) Being involved in an accident or incident, regardless of the outcome, is stressful for those involved. The NTSB works diligently with various stakeholders to provide as many answers regarding the damage classification as possible, whether it is determined to be an accident or an incident.

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Growing Use of API Technology in the Industry Our industry is changing so much. The days of paper maps and thumb drives are fading away as new online GPS systems and API technology takes over.

What is an API? It stands for “application programming interface” which allows apps to send information between each

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other. The basic purpose is to let software communicate.

I found that APIs are so important that I hired a developer to focus solely on working on them.

Helping with workflow is crucial in a cockpit and helping reduce distractions is key to quality work and safety.

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I once had a wise customer tell me “Keep it simple and easy” as well as “we want as few clicks as possible”. APIs keep the user from having to get out of one program to get into the other and reenter the information for data entry. Another type of API is transferring or downloading information automatically such as shapefiles, applied log data, mapping interfaces, automatically bringing in jobs from other software, etc. All of these at the click of a button.

the cockpit for instant retrieval of jobs. Photo credit: Paul Litwiller

An example of a GPS API is a user building a job from the home office and clicking a button to send it to the GPS. The applicator can then immediately access the job and fly the boundaries. When done, the weather API can fill in the weather information for the coordinates (which can be overridden), and then the applied log data that has been done can automatically overlay the map. Isn’t that awesome?

One of the APIs that I hope to expand to more states is the Driftwatch system. We automatically stream the registered beehives

and sensitive crops from their system to overlay them on our maps. This is so helpful in certain states. I’m trying to help bring their coverage to more states because I think it really helps our applicators prevent spraying areas where they shouldn’t.

We’ve had so many of our customers looking forward to easier workflows and finding out what’s coming up next. For now, we are focused on GPS systems and bookkeeping integrations, and I can’t wait to see what’s next for the future!

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LOW & SLOW

Mabry I. Anderson An Insider’s History of Agricultural Aviation

The Move Westward — Chapter Three continued…

Waco Model 1 O flying rape seed in Nebraska corn, 1929. Don Wright was the pilot.

Between 1930 and the conclusion of World War II, the meager supply of aircraft suitable for conversion to dusting machines was critical and a limiting factor in the growth of agricultural flying. The available aircraft of that day were, however, superb machines. Unquestionably, the four aircraft that made the early days possible were the biplanes produced by Waco, Travel-Air, Alexander Eaglerock, and the C3B from Lloyd Stearman. They were incredibly fine performers.

Nothing built today actually outperforms them in a weight/horsepower category.

They all had a superb airfoil and were ruggedly built. Wing loading was extremely low and their take-off performance was amazing. Barney Root, an old-timer with Delta, Finklea Brothers, and later his own business, took off on a dare in his Waco ASO with the aircraft pointed directly at a 40-foot tall hangar only 370 feet away. He cleared that hangar with at least I 00 feet to spare, something that most modem machines just cannot do.

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As a result of this aircraft shortage, dust hoppers were installed in almost anything able to fly.

Included were Pitcairns, DeHaviland Moths, Spartans, K-R Challengers, Douglas M-2s, and even such unlikely ag birds as the Curtiss Robin mono, the classic Fairchild 24, Alliance Aircraft’s “Argo,” Fleet Biplanes, the Buhl­-Vernille J4 Airmaster, the Stampe SV- 4, and other rare homebuilts that probably were never produced more than once or twice.

There were relatively few technical improvements during this period, partly because dry dusting equipment had already reached a plateau and very little could be done in the way of change.

Hoppers were usually constructed of galvanized steel or perhaps plywood. But more modem operators were turning to sheet aluminum, which was becoming more readily available. The use of sheet aluminum was pioneered by Finklea Brothers and some early Californians. Sliding hopper gates became fairly well standardized and cockpit “stops” were installed that ➤

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enabled pilots to regulate the flow of material more accurately.

Left: Early ag aircraft were incredible performers. Nothing

Crop dusting became widely accepted during this period, but the agricultural chemical industry lagged far, far behind. Calcium arsenate was virtually the only effective insecticide available, which limited the growth of aerial application drastically. This was during the Great Depression, but, oddly enough, the Depression contributed significantly to the development of agricultural aviation.

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This Waco, piloted by Don Wright, applies rape seed in Nebraska in 1929.

Center: Pilot Don Wright (center) and the

Through the years, farmers, particularly in the South, had negligently allowed much of their cropland to erode and the use of fertilizers and soil-building legumes was virtually unknown.

The federal government, backed to the hilt by President Roosevelt’s New Deal, instituted land reclamation programs throughout America’s farm areas and actually taught farmers how to improve and care for their land.

Wickersham Brothers successfully seeded rape by air in 1929 in Nebraska.

Right: Late 1930s, Travel-Air 4000 biplane equipped for dusting.

The Travel-Air was one of the best of the very early

Government-sponsored soil building programs were initiated where nitrogen-fixing legumes such as hairy vetch, wild winter peas, Austrian peas, and burr clover were sowed on the worn out land to increase fertility and to build up humus. With the exception of burr clover, these crops were a natural for the crop dusting industry, and the pilots of the 1930s quickly learned to seed by air.

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Learning who performed the first of these seeding jobs is impossible, but, by the mid-l 930s, every crop duster in the country was planting such seed by air. This was convenient for both farmer and pilot, since it was usually done in early autumn after the growing season was over. It was fast, efficient, and economicalperhaps too economical, because the flying firms B 26 | agairupdate.com

undercharged for this work and it was never really profitable. Most seeding of this nature was charged at only two or three cents a pound.

20 to 40 pounds were required per acre. It did, however, give the operators something to do and helped increase their gross revenues slightly.

Perhaps the most significant advance in the area of chemical farming by air that occurred before World War II was the “discovery” of “Black Annie,” the world’s first, and for many years only, cotton defoliant. Properly, “Black Annie” was known as calcium cyanamid, a 16 percent, nonacid ­forming nitrogen fertilizer, produced in large quantities by American Cyanamid Corporation.

Calcium cyanamid was a dirty black material, sold in great volume to the farming community in pelletized form. It was, and is, an excellent fertilizer.

Diligent research and numerous inquiries directly to American Cyanamid Corporation have failed to turn up exactly when this material was discovered to be a cotton defoliant, but pilot interviews prove conclusively that it was being used a few years before World War II. Cotton Carnahan, a veteran Mississippi operator, who flew for Raymond Brezeale at Natchitoches, Louisiana, applied Black Annie to cotton in Louisiana and Mississippi as early as 1941.

Like most far-reaching discoveries, awareness of calcium cyanamid’s ability to defoliate cotton came about by accident. A trailer of the pelletized material was being applied to lands adjoining a large cotton field during late September, when the cotton was naturally maturing. In opening and handling the 50-pound bags of Black Annie, a great deal of “dust” was released and spread by a light wind across the cotton field where it settled on the broad, green

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leaves. A few days later, farm personnel returned to the area and immediately noticed that the bulk of the leaves had been shed from the cotton, leaving the limbs and unopened bolls clean and well-exposed to the sunlight. The bolls opened quickly and harvesting was made much easier by this defoliating process.

Naturally, American Cyanamid Corporation was advised and the firm quickly went to work grinding a large amount of this material into dust form.

Experiments were carried out, using both ground and aerial applicators.

It was found that application of 25 to 40 pounds of this dust would nicely defoliate most cotton. Within a very short time, calcium cyanamid was being supplied in quantity to a tremendous market under the name Aero Cyanamid Special Grade. This was undoubtedly the first time that a product was named especially for the aircraft industry that would apply it!

Crop dusters loved Black Annie, but they also hated it. It produced much­-needed revenue and it did a good job, but it was unquestionably the messiest, nastiest material ever developed for aircraft use!

The finely ground black powder could seek out and find every crevice that an aircraft had. After one day defoliating, a brand new airplane looked 10 years old!

With pilots, it was just as bad. The stuff was light, fluffy, very black, and it turned pilots black! After three or four swaths, pilots were unrecognizable and washing it off was a chore. Ordinary soap hardly fazed it at all. One day, some unsung genius showered, using his wife’s Dove beauty soap, a delicate, perfumed soap containing a high percentage of cold cream. It worked like a charm. The Black Annie disappeared like magic under its lather. In cotton growing regions during B 28 | agairupdate.com

defoliating season, the suppliers of Dove soap couldn’t meet the demand.

Black Annie, besides being messy, had one other inconvenient drawback. For reasons not clearly understood, some individuals could not expose themselves to Black Annie and then have a couple of convivial beers. Although not every pilot was affected, many were. The results were astonishing.

A cold-sober pilot could consume one or two beers and almost immediately sink into a complete daze! Not technically drunk, just badly addled.

Sometimes skin reactions would occur, the victim would turn beet red, appear to be on the verge of apoplexy, and have no idea at all where he was or what he was doing. Most duster pilots soon learned to avoid alcohol, especially beer, during defoliation season. Smart aleck old-timers would often insist that a new man have a few beers with them at the local tavern after being exposed to Black Annie.

The results were often hilarious. Good clean fun, typical of the times and the dusting fraternity.

This all occurred before the advent of EPA and other consumer protection agencies, and nothing was ever done about this phenomenon. Today, a congressional investigation would be instituted immediately.

Aero Cyanamid Special Grade held a virtual monopoly insofar as defoliants were concerned until the early 1950s.

By that time, liquid spraying was taking over from dry materials and numerous new products began entering the market. This development will be discussed in some detail later on.

During the 1930s, fertilizing by air also developed, more or less, on its own.

Farmers all over the country, especially in regions where winter cereal crops were grown, began experimenting with aircraft

application, or top dressing, especially during wet spring weather when turf conditions prevented the use of ground distributors. For the most part, this fertilizing consisted of the application of pelletized nitrogen, broadcast at rates of 100 to 200 pounds per acre. The un­vaned spreaders or venturis of this era were not particularly well-adapted to even distribution, but skillful pilots using great care could do an adequate job.

Again, however, operators undercharged for their fertilizer work at one cent per pound or less. Mechanical loaders had not appeared, so all materials were loaded by hand. The resulting gross revenue per hour under these conditions was ridiculously low.

And then World War II came along. This event disrupted the small agricultural flying business tremendously. However, in some ways the war paved the way for the greatest boom imaginable for a fledgling industry. Every pilot who could fly was needed by the military and a great many duster pilots entered the services, either as instructors or as pilots for the Ferry Command. This situation closed many small operations completely.

As the war progressed, the Washington hierarchy began to realize that the agricultural flying business was badly needed to help increase food and fiber production. Consequently, a program was enacted that exempted ag flying people from direct military service.

Many pilots were returned to their former positions, and the industry was determined to be essential.

When the war ended, the stage was set for remarkable expansion. Thousands of surplus aircraft, some well-suited to the ag flying industry, were immediately and economically available. Also, hundreds of abandoned air fields and strips, complete with hangars, became available, especially in the South and Southeast.

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Jesus Christ— The Perfect Image Of God

Even though we are made in God’s image we’re all natural born sinners and can make the choice to sin.

Speaking of Jesus, Paul said, “He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation” (Colossians 1:15). Jesus said, “If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also; and from now on you know Him and have seen Him…He who has seen Me has seen the Father” (John 14:7, 9). Jesus Christ has all of God’s characteristics of omniscience (all knowing), omnipotence (all powerful), immutability (never changing), or omnipresence (everywhere at once). God cannot sin, He cannot violate His holy nature. Humans are not like God in many ways. Even though we are made in God’s image we’re all natural born sinners and can make the choice to sin, and we will all eventually die physically. “It is appointed for men to die once” (Hebrews 9:27).

“He is the image of the invisible God.” Jesus Christ is the perfect, exact, complete, and absolute image of God. In human terms we would say, “He is just like His Father.” The apostle John wrote, “And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld His glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father, full of grace and truth” (John 1:14).

The apostle Paul wrote, “For in Him dwells all the fullness of the Godhead bodily…And without controversy great is the mystery of godliness: God was manifested in the flesh, justified in the Spirit, seen by angels, preached among the Gentiles, believed on in the world, received up in glory” (Colossians 2:9, 1 Timothy 3:16). Even though Jesus was equal with God in every way, He made Himself of no reputation, taking the form of a bondservant,

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and came to this earth in the likeness of men (Philippians 2:6-7).

“The firstborn over all creation.” Some argue that “first born” means that Jesus was a created being, but that’s not the case here. The Greek word “prototokos” that’s translated into “first born” is used in other places in the Bible speaking of rank or position. Jesus is God’s only begotten Son, and He has the right to the full inheritance of all God’s creation. Jesus existed before anything was ever created (Micah 5:2).

There are many cults in this world who deny the deity of Jesus Christ. Some believe He was an angel and some believe that the angel Michael was an Old Testament manifestation of Jesus.

This kind of thinking puts a person under the curse of God and John tells Christians not to bring them into your house or even greet them (Galatians 1:1-7, 2 John 10-11). When we study the Bible we must always consider who the writer is talking to, what he is talking about, and the reason for writing the message. Teaching the Bible in its context is extremely important.

“For by Him all things were created that are in heaven and that are on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers” (Colossians 1:16). Jesus was there with God in the creation of this universe. John wrote, “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was in the beginning with God. All things were made through Him, and without Him nothing was made that was made” (John 1:1-4). The writer of the book of Hebrews tells us that Jesus is not only the

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heir of God, but He also made the worlds (Hebrews 1:2).

Jesus controlled the weather (Matthew 8:23-27). Jesus controlled the fish of the sea (Luke 5:1-9). Jesus raised the dead (John 11:1-44). Jesus did these and other miracles to prove that He was God in the flesh. Jesus is the creator of the universe and the Savior of anyone who believes in Him as their Lord and Savior.

The apostle John wrote, “That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, which we have seen with our eyes, which we have looked upon, and our hands have handled, concerning the Word of life—the life was manifested, and we have seen, and bear witness, and declare to you that eternal life which was with the Father and was manifested to us” (1 John 1:1-2). Jesus said that before Abraham was born “I am” not “I was.” Indicating that He is the eternal God (John 8:58). There never was a time when Jesus didn’t exist.

Jesus Christ holds this universe together and maintains the balance of natural forces necessary for life to exist on this earth. He keeps the galaxies, stars and planets in their proper place in the heavens and controls their motion. Jesus Christ controls all the energy of the universe; He controls gravity, centrifugal and centripetal force. Jesus Christ controls every law of nature. The miracles He did while He was on this earth prove that! Someday He is going to release this force and the whole universe will literally explode. Peter tells us, “But the day of the Lord will come like a thief. The heavens will disappear with a roar; the elements will be destroyed by fire, and the earth and everything in it will be laid bare” (2 Peter 3:10). Jesus is the creator and sustainer of this universe. We can thank Jesus for “upholding all things by the word of His power” (Hebrews 1:3).

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A person doesn’t choose the time they are born, or the city, state or nation they are born in. No person can choose who their parents will be, or how many brothers and sisters they will have. No person can choose whether they will be a man or woman. No person can choose the color of their skin before they are born. No person can choose whether they will have high intellectual abilities or not. The lives of all God’s children are ordained by God (Jeremiah 1:5).

Every breath a person takes is controlled by Jesus Christ (Daniel 5:23). Jesus Christ rules supreme over every circumstance of humanity. Since Jesus Christ controls the beginning and the end of our life on this earth, doesn’t it make sense to allow Him to be the Lord of our life for all eternity? It’s your choice!

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A Pawnee By No Other Name?

by Bill Lavender

Left: Vortices are

RIBEIRÃO PRETO, BRAZIL- During a trip to Brazil last summer, I was able to meet with José Paulo Rodrigues Garcia, simply known as Garcia, owner of Garcia Aviacao Agricola, Ltda. Garcia owns a Pawnee outiftted with winglets, that I was anxious to fly.

much smaller with the winglets…

Right: ...than without them.

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Like so many ag pilots, my first spray season in 1974 was flown in a Pawnee. My particular type Pawnee was known as a Hutcherson Pawnee with metal wings and fuselage, spring steel gear and a 250-horsepower engine (O-540 Lycoming with high compression pistons requiring 100 octane av gas). To me, the “metal” Pawnee flew better than the rag wing of that day. This was before the fuel cells were in the wings, but

instead were installed in the fuselage between the hopper and the engine.

These early model Pawnees’ nose bowl was painted red. We used to make jokes (not very funny if it was you) that the red nose of the Pawnee was nothing more than the end of a match stick! Of course, this was because of the danger of the fuel bladder so close to the engine, with the red nose bowl striking the ground causing many times the aircraft to burst into flames, and the demise of the pilot, a widow maker.

Later in my ag aviation career (1980), one of the ag planes the company I owned (ironically ➤

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called Ag Air) operated a Pawnee. So, I had several logbook pages recorded flying this aircraft. I basically knew what to expect from it.

The last time I had flown a Pawnee was almost exactly a year ago when I was in Tucson, Arizona to make an evaluation flight of the Goddard Lift Kit mounted on a rag wing Pawnee.

well it was trimmed in flight and not to evaluate its characteristics loaded. That is to be regretted, because most ag aircraft will fly well empty.

It is when they are loaded that their handling characteristics are the most important. It was winter time and Garcia’s loading facilities had been disassembled for off-season maintenance.

Ernesto Franzen (AAU Latinoamerica’s Brazilian representative) and I arrived at Ribeirao Preto late in the afternoon. Garcia kindly picked us up at the airport. By the time we were at the airstrip, the sun was setting. During the evening Garcia made the awaited invitation to fly his Pawnee. I am always humbled when a long distance friend, one I’ve never even met, so graciously extends to me an invitation to fly his aircraft. Garcia only advised me that I would see an “ocean” of sugar cane once I was in the air.

No precautions from Garcia about being careful, or any particularities to the aircraft.

Typical of an ag plane with winglets installed, the pilot will feel how yaw is kept to a minimum.

Although this is not usually a problem with single engine ag planes, it is the feel of stability that this lack of yaw gives to the pilot. In the turns, the rudder is more responsive and the aircraft has a “tracking” feeling on its way back to the field.

The next morning, upon careful preflight of the D-model Pawnee, I found it to be in perfect condition. It had a SATLOC unit and a winglet system designed by Dr. Marcos Vileala and Garcia installed.

To me, the Pawnee has always been a fun ag plane to fly. It handles well empty.

Questioning Garcia, he told me the winglets were designed through a trial-and-error method.

A local fabrication shop built the molds for the fiberglass winglets. The installation is like other winglets that I’ve seen on U.S. ag aircraft, basically replacing the wing tip using screws to secure it. That these winglets looked like the Brazilian Ipanema should come as no surprise — Garcia and Dr. Vilela gave the design to Neiva due to the red tape involved in certification.

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The slower an ag plane becomes in the turns, the more rudder movement is required. If the turn is a climbing, nose falling through, turning back toward the field-type turn, the pilot can literally have the rudder pedals pressed to the floor. With winglets, this doesn’t seem to happen as readily. Without an accurate way of measuring the difference, it is a sensation of feeling that the aircraft has more capability to be pulled harder on the elevators and literally pointed back to the field. In less words, the winglet Pawnee turns even better than before winglets.

I did not witness a swath from this winglet Pawnee. However, I saw pictures showing a visible reduction of vortices. Admittedly, a better evaluation flight would have been with the aircraft loaded and a video taken of the swath, examining its make up. This particular flight was made without intention of such intense evaluation, only a simple early morning fun flight.

I don’t know if Garcia will pursue marketing the Pawnee winglets. Undoubtedly, they are an improvement to the aircraft. Garcia is a busy and successful ag aviation operator. He may just keep this luxury to himself!

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NTSB Identification: CEN21LA296 Date: June 28, 2021 Location: Hoxie, AR Aircraft: GRUMMAN ACFT ENG CORSCHWEIZER G-164B Injuries: None The pilot stated that, after he departed for the last load of the day on an aerial application flight, he realized he was low on fuel but decided to continue with the flight. Before the load was completely dispersed, the airplane ran out of fuel and the engine lost all power. During the forced landing in a flooded rice field, the airplane flipped over, resulting in substantial damage to the forward right lift strut.

The pilot stated that there were no mechanical anomalies with the airplane that would have precluded normal operations.

Probable Cause and Findings—The National Transportation Safety Board determines the probable cause(s) of this accident to be: The pilot’s failure to ensure an adequate fuel supply for the intended flight.

NTSB Identification: CEN21LA313 Date: July 11, 2021 Location: Newell, IA Aircraft: Air Tractor AT802 Injuries: Minor The pilot reported that he was in the process of spraying a corn field and climbed to avoid trees that were in his path. When he descended back toward the field, the airplane settled more than expected and the landing gear and bottom of the airplane hit the corn. The pilot was unable to climb the airplane out of the corn and the left wing hit the ground. The airplane rotated about 180°, bounced, then impacted the ground on the right wing and engine, before it came to rest upright. The pilot was not injured and he stated that there were no mechanical malfunctions that would have precluded normal operation. The airplane sustained substantial damage to the engine mounts, both wings, and empennage.

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In the spirit of the NAAA’s Ag Aviation Expo in Savannah, GA and good Southern hospitality, AgAir Update is hosting its

5th Open House and Hangar Party Friday, December 3rd, 2021

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Enjoy Southern barbecue and ag-pilot fellowship before the Ag Aviation Expo. Live music, great food, ag-aircraft display and demos, along with good ole’ Southern hospitality.

Fly-in to KPXE (Perry-Houston County Airport) and taxi up to the AgAir Update hangar. Drive-in to Perry, GA (on Interstate 75, 90 miles south of Atlanta) and park at the AgAir Update hangar. Motorhome space available (no power).

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SPREADING THE FACTS

Michelle Miller - michelle@thefarmbabe.com

Top Six Ways to Know if What You’re Reading is Factually Accurate In the aerial application industry - or modern farming in general - people have questions.

Sometimes they have misperceptions. In a world where misinformation swirls the internet, what are the facts and how do we combat the information that’s not true? We all probably have that one friend or relative that seems to always fall for the latest conspiracy or fake news story - here are some ways to know if what we’re reading is correct or not.

• Look up the author. If you’re reading something that makes you feel skeptical, look up their name and their background.

If they’re writing an article about animal agriculture, are they a livestock farmer from a small town or are they a vegan animals rights activist from New York City?

Understanding their educational background helps a lot to know if they’re knowledgeable

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in their field. You can also Google their name with keywords like “organic” “nonGMO” or “vegan” to see if they’re extremists or tied to food corporations or activist groups with an agenda.

• Google it “debunked.” Let’s say you’re reading an article that’s gone somewhat viral. For example, I was reading one that was talking about how wheat is “drenched” in glyphosate and that it’s Roundup - not gluten - causing all sorts of medical issues.

The article seemed suspect, so I googled “roundup wheat debunked” and all sorts of articles showed up debunking this fake news story. The original viral article was written by some Mommy blogger with no credible evidence. The articles out there that debunked this story were written by professionals, like wheat farmers, the ➤

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wheat board, and so many others who have firsthand experience growing wheat and who are the real experts on the topic.

• Is it on the news? Has the FDA covered it, have the products been recalled? Let’s say, for example, there is a legitimate reason to avoid a certain food - like an e.coli outbreak in lettuce. If this is the case, it will be all over the news and reputable expert outlets like the USDA or FDA will make announcements that there is a serious reason to avoid a food product.

• Are they selling something? “Fear” is the new “sex” when it comes to making a sale.

Especially in agriculture, the marketing behind food can sometimes be quite ugly.

Some authors may also be selling a book or ideology. Asking for donations? Don’t fall for misinformation as a sales tactic. Is “organic” or “Non-GMO” really that pure or are food corporations creating false health halos to sell a product? Is it really beneficial to give up meat? Likely not, but follow the money trail behind the anti-meat movement for example and you find that animal rights activist groups extremists are usually the ones behind the funding of all of this to solicit donations and push a “go vegan” agenda full of misinformation.

• Try fact-checking websites. Although it isn’t always perfect, I do recommend checking out www.snopes.com which does a pretty good job fact-checking the hot topics. If you’re reading something that’s gone viral and not sure what to make of it, there’s a good chance that Snopes has already contacted the experts and has done their due diligence to post the real facts.

• Look for peer-reviewed evidence. Fear is easy, science is hard. Sometimes people just need to do a better job reading into topics and not be intellectually lazy. Often times you’ll read or hear a story that says, “studies show,” but where are the studies?

Extraordinary claims require extraordinary

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evidence. Look deeper into the topic, read the actual study, connect with legitimate credible experts on a certain topic and don’t believe everything you read right off the bat.

Evidence, evidence, evidence.

At the end of the day, we have to think about who the real experts are and apply critical thinking and common sense.

At the end of the day, we have to think about who the real experts are and apply critical thinking and common sense. If you have a question about your car, don’t you talk to your mechanic? If you have a problem with your teeth, you go to the dentist. It’s important that we raise awareness and showcase transparency with the agrochemical industry. We all care about the planet and our health, but if anyone can explain safety, rate, application, training, physics, equipment, weather and so much more, it’s the applicators - professional applicators, farmers and agronomists that have the power to advocate. Improve public perception and have a real positive impact on just how fortunate we are to have such a safe and abundant food supply.

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FROM THE FAA

Leo M. Hattrup

Hypoxia The scenery is often spectacular when flying close to the ground, but there are many advantages gained by flying at higher altitudes.

Communication improves, as does navigation (other than GPS). Convective activity often decreases. Flight visibility (if out of the clouds) and true airspeed both benefit from higher altitudes. But these benefits come at a cost.

As one ascends, the ambient pressure decreases.

On average, it decreases one inch Hg for every 1,000 feet up to 18,000 feet. The rate of decrease is not linear, although close. From sea level (at 29.92 inches Hg on a standard day), pressure decreases by half to about 14.9 inches Hg at 18,000 feet. As pressure decreases, gas expands. That includes the gas in your intestinal tract, sinuses, and ears.

Remember that hypoxia impairs your ability to recognize that you are impaired.

This is not an issue if the pressure can be relieved. If blocked, though, incapacitating pain can result. We therefore recommend not flying with a cold or congestion, even if you’re asymptomatic on medications. Gas introduced from medical procedures, even dental work, will also expand and might not have an escape route. I highly encourage discussing these issues with your treating physician (or, even better, your AME) before getting into an aircraft (personal or commercial).

Oxygen is carried in the blood primarily on the hemoglobin molecule (98%) with some directly absorbed into the blood (as it is in water).

Each hemoglobin molecule carries four oxygen molecules, each progressively bound more tightly. The whole dissociation curve is nonlinear and can shift from more tightly bound to less tightly. Factors that favor the latter include increased carbon dioxide, acidity, an increase in 2,3 DPG (an organic compound involved in O2 movement), and heat. Of interest, these factors increase with exercise, which makes sense as that’s when O2 demand is highest.

In addition to pressure, the amount of available oxygen also decreases when you ascend.

Even though the percentage of oxygen in the atmosphere is nearly constant at 21%, the amount of pressure is less, resulting in one half the amount of oxygen at 18,000 feet than at sea level. This is typically not a problem for someone young and fit, but most risk factors for A 36 | agairupdate.com

decompression sickness (DCS) also increase the risk of hypoxia (below). Use of supplemental oxygen is highly recommended above 5,000 feet, especially at night. 14 CFR section 91.211 outlines the legal requirements, but these are minima. Note also that the nasal cannula, preferred by many pilots, is inadequate for the higher altitudes.

Factors that adversely affect the oxygen carrying capacity of blood include: smoking, anemia (even though the pulse oximeter can remain normal), abnormal hemoglobin (sickle cell disease, thalassemia), etc. Prolonged sitting can also lead to impaired oxygen delivery (stagnant hypoxia).

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For those pilots who SCUBA dive or snorkel, we recommend no flying after SCUBA for at least 24 hours, whether there was a mandated decompression stop or not. The risk of DCS increases with the depth, bottom time, and number of dives. Other risk factors include age, fitness, obesity, smoking, sleep loss, dehydration, alcohol and other drugs, some heart defects, cold water diving, and lung disease. Flying at low altitude or in a pressurized cabin does not eliminate the risk. I personally have seen divers develop DCS after driving over a 3,200-foot pass following several dives at sea level. When diving, consider safety stops even when not mandatory, stay hydrated, and maximize the surface interval. Note that skin diving, while safer than SCUBA, is not risk free. Repetitive deep dives while holding your breath can increase nitrogen build up in blood and tissues; DCS can result.

Remember that hypoxia impairs your ability to recognize that you are impaired. The best defense, other than supplemental oxygen, is to know your personal symptoms.

In this issue’s Aeromedical Advisory, Dr. Northrup addresses some of the available training.

Leo M. Hattrup, M.D., received a bachelor’s degree from Wichita State University, a master’s in public health from Harvard University, and a doctorate from Vanderbilt University. He is retired from the U.S. Air Force in which he spent the majority of his career in aerospace medicine.

He is board certified in aerospace and occupational medicine. He is a certificated flight instructor and enjoys flying airplanes, helicopters, and gliders.

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Aircraft - Ag Cat

Relisting! The sale fell through. 1989 Super B Fat Cat, super 6 engine, 500 gallon, 11,166 TT, 1189 since hot, 188 IRAN, hydraulic spray system, air conditioning and heat, wing extensions, servos, night lights, E/I digital gauges. $250K out of annual or $280K with annual. Call 509-5208267 Various Ag Cat Spares available. Please contact us for the price at spares@ orsmondaviation.co.za +27 58 303 5261 or visit our website at https:// orsmondaviation.co.za/

1976 Ag Cat G-164B, Tulsa Aircraft Engine, 8067 TT Airframe, 134 SMOH, 651 SPOH, 120 Gallon Bottom Load Fuel, 330 Gallon Hopper, Air Conditioning, SATLOC Bantam GPS, Crop Hawk, Flagger, Spreader, Smoker, Right Boom Shutoff. $135K 308-8893481

1977 Ag Cat G164B TPE331 Super One, TTAF: 9100, HSI: 2013, 115 Gal. Fuel w/Bottom Load, 335 Gallon Hopper, Smooth Panel, M3 w/ Flow Control, A/C and Heat, Smoker/ Flagger, Spades, New Tires, Cool Seat, Turbine Conversion Done at Hershey in 2011, Aircraft Rebuilt at Hershey in 2008. Second Ag Cat with Super One also available Soon. $335K Call Lance Werth 308-325-2095 with Questions or Offers or Nathan Masten at Flying M Aviation 308-324-8770 Order your B Model Ag Cat Pen and Ink Drawing From our DeSpain Collection today for $59.99. plus S&H. Call 478987-2250

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1973 G164A Ag Cat, TTAF 7314, P&W R985-14B, TT SMOH 980 hr. Younkin overhaul, Hamilton standard prop, hydromantic, speed ring, sealed cockpit, A/C, Hersey wings, B-model mods, Hangar collapsed on the tail section.

Call for details at 662-207-6820

1975 1340 Ag Cat, TT: 5,678.4 (302 Hr. Engine & Prop), Extended A Wing, Hershey Wing Tips, Pump & Booms, TracMap GPS, Spreader, EQT Exhaust Temp, Tail Wheel Lock, CP Nozzles, Smoker, Flagger. $130K Call North Star today at 620-356-4528

1974 Schweitzer Turbine Ag Cat, TT: 10,509, Super One TPE332, Extended B-Wing Upper & Lower, Sealed Cockpit, Extended Fuel, New Dash, A/C & Heat, Smoker, Transland Gate, TracMap, Tail Wheel Lock, Breckenridge Spreader, Hydraulic System, Auto Cal Flow Control, 8 Rotary Atomizer Nozzles, Dukes Metering System, Flagger, Double Puck Brakes. $465K Call North Star today at 620356-4528 Ag Cats In Progress - S/N 526B S&R TPE331-6 FatCat 515-gal/126-fuel, Hi&Heavy, TST, 41” TL DAF, New Prop $249K (+engine repair). S/N 566B AgJet TPE331-Turbo SB+ 400-gal/120fuel, Hi&Heavy, TST, 25/38” TL DAF, New Prop/Your Engine, $335K. S/N 349B Mills PT6-Turbo B, 350-gal/115fuel, TST, New Prop/Your Engine, $225K. All LOOK & PERFORM LIKE NEW! 870-886-2418/2489F 870759-1692 Cell. AgCat Sales & Service since 1971. frank.kelley@ag-cat.com Export Special: G164A+, Fresh AmAg REPAIR w/factory jigged frames, New 335-Hopper, Ext’d/Metal Wings, 80fuel, 24V w/Strobes, E-Servo, Hybrid Combo, Ready for 1000 hr. servicerun. $59K & Your R985/R1340 E&P. CofaW4Ex included. Flyaway or your container. AgCat Sales/Services since 1971, 870-886-2418/2489 Fax, 870-759-1692 Cell. frank.kelley@ ag-cat.com

Better’n NEW 450 Ag Cat! Total “Ground-up” Restoration! Loads of Up-Grades. “B” Cabin, hopper, 67 fuel, TL Gate, Fly Tips, SATLOC BANTAM GPS. Best “450” performer EVER! Ready for another 50-years of Reliable, Economical, Safe Service. $215K invested, $145K Steals her! Ag cat Sales/Service since 1971. 870-8862418/2489F 870-759-1692 Cell. frank.kelley@ag-cat.com Special “Pair” Pricing for (2) 2021 Super A+600 Queen Cats. 350 Hopper, H-V TLand Combos, 80-Fuel, B-Cabins, TST, Zero AF & E&P! Be smart, fly safe, do better work! Bank on 4-wings! List $269K, reduced to $189K each. Ag Cat Sales and Service since 1971. 870-2418/2489F frank. kelley@ag-cat.com

Your choice out of three 400 Gallon Super B Ag Cats. Only looking to sell one at the moment but all are well maintained and always hangared northern airplanes. They aren’t exactly alike though, so look at each photo for better details. All Garrett powered (2 have Super 1’s & one is a -1), 400 Gallon Hoppers, SS Booms, Swathmaster Spreaders, All Metal Wings, Cockpit Heat, Bottom Load Fuel, Automatic Flagman. These airplanes are all working, so the times are subject to change. $284,500 Message for more info or call 541-969-2062.

1982 Grumman G164B Turbo Ag Cat, Serial No. 679B, Registration No. N8388K, Pratt & Whitney PT6A-20, TTSN 20335.2, SMOH 4160.7.

Copy of Appraisal done 06/09/2021.

Available Call 405-262-6566 $300,000

1977 AT-301, Bought new and been in Montana all its life. Always hangared.

TT5065, PW 1340-AN1 275 SMOH Tulsa, Prop 12D40 494 SMOH, Wing spar cap 320 HR since replacement, Ag Tips, Dyna Nav GPS w/flow control, VG’s, Speed Ring, Fresh Annual w/sale. Photos Available. $75K OBO 406-262-3826 Phone or Text

1977 AT-301, Bought new and been in Montana all its life. Always hangared.

TT 5301, PW 1340-AN1 373 SMOH Tulsa, Prop 12D40 “0” SMOH, Wing spar cap 385 Hr since replacement, Ag Tips, Dyna Nav GPS w/flow control, VG’s, Fresh Annual with sale. Photos Available. $75,000 OBO 406-262-3826 Phone or Text

1988 AT-301, N69WN, TTAF 8900.0, P&W R-1340 SMOH 370.0, Overhaul by Younkin, Hamilton Standard Prop SPOH 530, 320 Gal Hopper, AgPilot X GPS, Flow Control, Smoker, SS Boom, A/C, VG’s, Lane Electric Brake, Bottom Load Fuel, 25 inch gate, 2 each spreaders. MidContinent Aircraft, Hayti, MO, 800-3250885 www.midcont.net

Order your Turbine Ag Cat Pen and Ink Drawing from our DeSpain Collection today for only $59.99plus S&H. Call 478-987-2250

Aircraft - Air Tractor AT-301 1986 AT-301, R-1340 geared engine, 600 hrs since Covington OH, Bantam GPS, CP’s. Farm Air Inc. For more information call 309-759-4826 or email hcurless@farmairinc.com

1983 AT-301, N31580, TTAF 9679.2, P&W R-1340 Geared TTE 550.0, 350 Gallon Hopper, Bantam GPS w/G4 Light Bar, IntelliFlow, SS Boom, CP03 Nozzles, Smoker, A/C, Bottom Load Fuel, New Side Windows.

Call Mid-Continent Aircraft, Hayti, MO, 800-325-0885 www.midcont.net

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1991 AT-400, N432WA, PT6-15AG, TTE 16,828.2 hrs., TTAF 16,829.1 hrs., 400 Gallon Hopper, Reabe clear view canopy, Reabe hopper gauge w/side view, 25” gate box, drop-down booms, Electric spray pump brake, 126 gallons of fuel, Single point, SATLOC Bantam. $350K Call Jeremy at 815718-5300

1979 AT-400, N550BH, TTAF 7453, PT6-27A ETSOH 3907.7, TSHIS 1548.2, Good cycles remaining, 475 gallon hopper, Reabe clear view canopy, Reabe hopper gauge w/side view, 38” gate box, 180 gallon fuel, Single-point fueling, Dropdown booms, Electric spray pump brake. $325K Call Jeremy at 815379-9300

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1999 AT-402A -11, TT 6550, Power section SLOH 2770, SHOT 500, FCU IRAN 200, Start gen SMOH 500, Prop SMOH 2900. Marburger Winglets, Electronics International fuel flow, Reabe hopper gauge, Bantam with flow control, SL 40 comm, right boom shutoff, AM Safe harness, Kawak throttle quadrant, and Storm cutters.

Great 3 owner northern airplane. You will not be disappointed. $365K 402322-0338

1991 AT-402A, PT6A34, N402CS, 400-gallon hopper, Reabe hopper gauge with side view, 25” gate box, Dropdown booms, 170 gallons of fuel, Single-point fueling, SATLOC Bantam, Paint isn’t very good, Hobbs 5,967.5 hr, AFTT 13,654.4 hr, Time remaining on wings 3,654.5 hr, No Eddie current needed, Hartzell prop HV-B3TN-3D, TSO 1,256.2 hr, PT634, TTE 12,751.7 hr, TSHSI 1,226.7 hr, Good cycles remaining, $350K Call Jeremy at 815-379-9300

AT-502 1995 AT-402B, PT6A-15, N6174H, 400-gallon hopper, Reabe clear view canopy, Reabe hopper gauge with side view, 25” gate box, Dropdown booms, Electric spray pump brake, SATLOC Bantam, Single-point fueling, 170 gallons of fuel, Hobbs 7,294hr, TTAF 7,294hr, Time remaining on wings 6,882.6 hr, No Eddie current needed, 485.8hr since new paint job, Hartzell prop HC-B3TN-3D, TT 5,175.0 hr, TSO 866hr, PT6-15AG, TTE 7,294hr, TSHSI 1,920.9 hr, Still good cycles left on the engine. $425K Call Jeremy at 815-379-9300 1996 AT-402B, 7300 TTSN, PT6A34AG. Just back from Covington - zero on light overhaul, fresh wing spar, new annual. For more information call 309-759-4826 or email hcurless@ farmairinc.com 1990 AT-402, 3165 TTSN, PT6A34, 105 since Covington OH, GPS, com radio, CP’s. For pricing and more information call 309-759-4826 or email hcurless@farmairinc.com

1999 AT-502B, PT6-34 Turboprop engine. Aircraft is well maintained, ready to work and is clean for its age. Completely mechanically sound, swathmaster spreader and spray equipment will be included in the purchase price. Will be sold with fresh annual and HSI. $425K Call Jeff at 870-552-9055.

1998 AT-502B, N1502B, S/N: 0476, 10,725 hrs TTAE, -34 Fresh HSI, Bantam with flow control, Smoker, A/C, Wingman, Reabe Hopper Gauge. Price reduced to $250,000 361-782-2141 2004 AT-502B, N702LA, S/N: 0702, 4,700 hrs TTAE, -34 Fresh HSI, Bantam with flow control, Smoker, A/C, Reabe Hopper Gauge. Price reduced to $400,000 Call 361-782-2141 Get Serious About Selling 478-987-2250. Fax: 478-352-0025.

1989 AT-502, N1012Z, TTAF 16,500, Wings due in 1,200 hours, Harbour Air Conditioner, G4 SATLOC w/Flow Control, Extensive Engine work last 2,500 hours, Prop 2,500 SOVH, 200 SIRAN, Paint 5, VG’s, Annual due 12/2021, working on it now. See spec sheet for details. $240K Call Matt Fitch 830-334-7792 or 830-334-3373

1992 AT-502, N914BR, TTAF 19,950, Wings due 27,018, New style Engine Mount no AD, Harbour air conditioner, Comm, Paint 7ish, VG’s, 216 gal fuel, Annual due Jan 2022, Prop 630 SIRAN, Clean plane, I stay on top of corrosion and rust. Cosmetics not so much. $240,000 Call Matt Fitch at 830-334-7792 or 830-334-3373 2008 AT-502B -34, N41854, 5,033TT, 0 SHSI, 337 S Prop overhaul, G4 SATLOC w/Intelliflow flow control, 215 fuel, Rt. hand boom shutoff, 36 AFS check valves, 36 Davidon Tri set nozzles, Lane brake w/4 blade fan, Heat/Air, Reabe canopy top, Auto shutoff fuel left and right fill, Smoker, Flagger, Stainless hopper shutoff valve, VG’s, Shadin fuel flow, AmSafe restraint system, Dry out system, Wingman, Pulsing Led nose lights, Storm Cutters, ADS-B in and out. Well maintained clean 502. $620,000 Call 605-3504536 2003 AT-502B, N8506V, S/N: 0650, 13,157 hrs TTAE, -34 Fresh HSI, Bantam with flow control, Smoker, A/C, Wingman, Reabe Hopper Gauge. Price reduced to $225,000 Call 361-7822141 Order your AT-502 Pen and Ink Drawing from our DeSpain Collection today for only $59.99 plus S&H. Call 478-9872250

AT-602 1997 AT-602, N602LA, PT6A45A, 9,370 total aircraft time, air conditioner, smoker, Lane fan and brake, Bantam w/Intelliflow. 3,500 hours since Light Engine Overhaul, 1650 Since Prop Overhaul, 3,500 hours remaining on spars. Stainless booms, Reabe Hopper and Pressure Gauge. No damage history. $275,000 Larry 956-330-7119

2008 AT-602 -65B. Completely rebuilt in 2008.

5550 hr since rebuild.

Fresh annual. Flow Control.

Large size propeller N11276N5, 800 since new hub & blades, Bantam w/G4 screen. W/W. Heat/ factory a/c. Washout system. Manual tail wheel lock. SS Fasteners. New paint on leading edges.

Wingman. LED strobes and nose lights.

Night flight package. Factory air intake.

Off-set engine mount. Aileron trim. All glass good. Price reduced to $295K As is. For sale. 501-516-6156

2013 AT-602, PT6-60, 5,680 hrs. TTAE, 700 hrs. since prop IRAN, 1200 hrs. since HOT, G4 Hemisphere, Hyrd. Gate and Spray Valve, Quickstart, 3” Loading Valve, Fuel connects both sides, ADSB-OUT, Laser Altimeter, Booms, Spreader. $625,000 Contact Kevin Jones 662363-1461 Tunica, MS

2008 AT-602, TTAF 10,066, 0 Time on major overhaul PT6-65 motor from Prime Turbines, 178 hours since Prop IRAN, G4 Hemisphere, Hydraulic gate and spray valve, quick start, 3” loading valve, fuel connects both sides, ADSB-OUT, Altimeter laser, Booms, Spreader, ready to sell at end of season. 1 YR or 500 HR WARRANTY FROM PRIME TURBINES! Price reduced to $699K Contact Kevin Jones, Tunica Air, Inc. 662-363-1461 Order your AT-602 Pen and Ink Drawing from our DeSpain Collection today for only $59.99 plus S&H. Call 478-987-2250

AT-802 2005 AT-802A, 6975 TTSN, PT6A67AG, 6975 TTSN, 220 since Covington hot, 0-SIRAN prop, electric brake, smoker, CP’s, G-4 w/flow, Kawak, MVP50T, wingman, 10” gate, new wing spars, new hopper, Farm Air referb, Sept. 2018 annual, NO TRADES. Call 309-303-5161 or email hcurless@farmairinc.com

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1999 AT-802A PT6-65, N9037N, TTAF - 9023, TTE - 7520.5, Since Covington Light Overhaul - 3107.4, SATLOC G4, Intelliflow, Transland 71/2” gate (new 2019), New Wings (7656 hrs - 1367 on new wings), New Paint 2019, New Main Gear 2019, Load Hawg, Kawak Throttle Quadrant, AM Safe Air Bags, Single Point Fuel, Laser Altimeter, LED Nose Lights. This airplane is a really nice well-kept airplane and is working daily. Can be available Dec 1, 2021. Sale will include fresh annual and fresh hot section. $675,000 Contact Darin Walton at 870-9304200.

2019 AT-802 -67, Less than 200 hrs. Currently rigged for fire but can be modified for ag. GTN650 GPS Comm, ADSB, Secondary Garmin Comm, Aspen ProMax PFD, PS Engineering Intercom, Technisonic TDFM-136B, Vondran Fire Gate, Foam System. $1,700,000 Please email all inquiries to blindads@agairupdate.com Subject: ID#3421

2020 AT-802 -67, TTAE 224 hrs. Currently rigged for fire but can be modified for ag. GTN-750 GPS Comm, ADSB, Secondary Garmin Comm, Aspen ProMax PFD, PS Engineering Intercom, Technisonic TDFM-136B, Vondran Fire Gate, Foam System. $1,710,000 Please email all inquiries to blindads@ agairupdate.com Subject: ID#3422

2012 AT-802A, N805ET, Available Oct. 1st, 5300 hrs. airframe and power plant, Factory Heat/Air, SATLOC G4, Wingman, Smoker, Lane brake, Trans lane spreader, CP09’s, Vondran gate controller, Duplex nozzles.

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2014 AT-802A, TTAF 4,615, TTE 6,088, Prop Time since IRAN: 199 hrs, SATLOC G4, Intelliflow, Hartzell 5-blade, Flight Line FL-T64, CP11 TT, AFS Check Valves w/ Swivels, Lane Fan & Brake, Right Boom Shutoff, Landing Lights, Night Work Lights, A/C & Heat, Reabe Hopper Gauge, Smoker, Hatfield Single Point Fuel, AmSafe, Hopper Rinse, Tinted Windows, Fast Start, Fire Extinguisher, Overhauled Prop 1-2021, New CT Blades 1-21, Hot Section Completed 5-2021, New #1 & #2 Bearing 5-2021. $795K Call North Star today at 620-356-4528

2016 AT-802A, N805KP, PT6A-65AG Now Available!

Fresh extensive annual, fresh hot section, new paint on fuselage, fresh O/H starter generator and propApprox. 3600 Hours TT, 10” Hydraulic Gate, SATLOC G4 W/Flow Control, Wingman, LED Pulse Lights, PS Engineering PAR 200B Audio Panel/Com, Garmin GTX345 ADSB in/ out, Garmin 796 for displaying traffic and weather, New CT Blades at 2390 Hours TT, New Landing Gear at 3000 Hours TT. $945K Contact Steve at Ag Air Aircraft 870-236-0146 steve. agairaircraft@gmail.com

2008 AT-802A -67, 9818 TTAE, G4, Wingman, Garmin audio panel, comm radio, 496gps, Lynx ADSB in/out transponder. 5-inch gate, can be sold with Reabe 7.5 for an additional charge.

671hr since hot with 800 grand in NEW Pratt parts put into power section.

Power section is almost completely new including exhaust duct, 1st and 2nd stage blades and disks, stator, #3 and #4 bearings. 2400hr remaining on gear. 2600 since new prop was installed 1400 since IRAN. New panels and paint in 2018, repainted by Crider in 2019 due to subpar job the first time.

Completely rebuilt horizontal stabilizers being installed. Aircraft is in shop for annual at this time. Clean airplane. $550K Call Cole 870-830-1585

1998 AT-802A, N5094H, TTAE 12152.6, PT6A65AG, Hartzell Propeller 2000.0 SPOH, Reabe digital hopper quantity & spray boom pressure, E-TEC Inc. fast start system, Comm radio, Hemisphere G4 GPS, Right side boom shut off, Smoker, Hydraulic gate A/C, Wipaire vortex generators, Wingman, Annual 1/10/21.

See spec sheet for details. MidContinent Aircraft, Hayti, MO, 800-3250885 www.midcont.net

2006 AT-802 -67 Total Time: 6800, Available November or December, New Paint, Annual In Jan. 2021, New Stage 2 PT Blades, SATLOC G4, Smoker, Wingman, Side Load Fuel, 10” Deep Throat Spreader, Vondran Controller, Hydraulic 10” Door, Flow Control, ADSB In and Out. $750,000 Call 501-517-6896

2000 AT-802A-0089, N804DG, Annual completed June 2021, 100 hours SHSI, 225 hours SMOH engine, 225 hours SMOH/SNEW long prop blades, 2018 extensive aircraft rebuild/new panels, 10” Vondran gate/no spreader, no spray system, no SATLOC. See spec sheet for complete rebuild list. $690K Call 409-656-5998

AT-802 Single & Dual Cockpit. PT6A-67F Engine (1600hp), Full avionics and instrumentation.

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Aircraft with very low use and flight hours. Call or email: +34 667 102 184, sales@airtractoreurope.com

2002 Red/White AT-802A, N802MA, s/n 802A-0136 with 4048 TTSN, PT6A-65AG s/n PCE-PN0050, 4048 TTSN 0-since Covington hot, new CT blades, new segments, fresh liner, current FCU/pump, Hartzell propeller model HC-B5MP-3F s/n EVA2699 1450 S-IRAN, smoker, electric brake/ fan, steam gauges, 308 fuel, STC single point fuel, Kawak, G-4 GPS/flow, CP’s, Transland 7-1/2” hyd gate, Transland wingman, new annual. Call 309-7594646 or email hcurless@farmairinc. com

1997 AT-802AF PT667AG, TT 6677, -67AG w/ Fresh Hot Section 27960 SNEW, Prop 7591 SNEW, Hydromax Fire Gate, Fresh Annual, USFS/DOI Carded, ADSB, BK KMA 24H, BK KY196, Garmin GTX 327, TDFM 136, Sky Connect AFF. $750K 575-763-4300 or email cameron@ aerotechteam.com 2006 AT-802A, PT6A-65AG, 7700 TTSN, new wing spars, new hoppers, 308 fuel, fresh FCU/pump, CP’s, com radio, transponder/ ADSB-out, G4 GPS/flow, S.P fuel, Kawak. For more information call 309-759-4826 or email hcurless@farmairinc.com

2001 AT-802 -67AG, TT 4990, Engine SMOH 1369 Fresh Hot Section, Prop 148 SNEW, TDFM 138, KY196A, KY 196A, Garmin 345 ADSB, Fresh Paint in 2019, Hatfield Fire Gate or available with 10” Transland and booms. $925K Call 575-763-4300 or email cameron@aerotechteam.com

2004 AT-802 -67AG USFS/ DOI CARDED, -67AG Fresh Hot Section, TT3932, STOH 2205, Prop 73 SPOH, KY 196A, KY 196A, TDFM 136A, GTX-345 Transponder, Smoker, Hydromax Fire Gate USFS/DOI Carded Fresh Annual. $800K Call 575-7634300 or Email cameron@aerotechteam. com for further details.

Fire Boss, Single & Dual Cockpit. PT6A67F Engine (1600hp), Full avionics and instrumentation. Computerized FRDS Gen II Fire gate. Aircraft with very low use and flight hours. Call or email: +34 667 102 184, sales@airtractoreurope. com Get Serious About Selling Classifieds Starting at $19.99 478-987-2250. Fax: 478-352-0025.

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Aircraft - Cessna

1979 1979 Cessna 188 Ag Husky, Engine 311 SMOH, Prop 1011 SMOH, Airframe 4389 TT, Bantam GPS, Brand New Drop Booms, Sky Tech starter. $120,000 Call 662-3787217

1972 Cessna 188 Ag Wagon, N21883, TT6350, 1740 SMOH, Prop165, stainless steel booms, SATLOC Lite 2, new leading edges, refurbished hopper, CP nozzles, owner flown since new. Good flying and fast!

Current annual with sale. Call Kevin at 785-386-8875

1964 Cessna 310I, TT 5253, Continental IO470U engines TSMOH LH 573 RH 249, McCauley props TSPOH LH 573 RH 670. Nice twin, true 6 seater & heavy hauler.

It’s a clean northern airplane with no corrosion, new tires, new heater & fresh annual. Paint and interior are both prob a 5 out of 10. Basic radios. Would be interested in trade for Piper Cherokee 6, Saratoga, or Lance. $55,000 Call Tanner Sotvik at 701-520-0229 or 701-662-4416

1978 Cessna Ag Truck, 5832 TTAF, 625 TTE, 550 TT on prop, 8.50X10 Clevelands, GPS, field ready. Price reduced to $112,000. Call Chad Stuart, Airplane Services, Inc. Call 850-336-0552

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1995 M18A Turbine Dromader, 4500 TTAF, wings and tail section 2900, 400 TT SPOH, Engine TPE-331-11u-6116, 874 TSO, 400 since Teledo repair compressor housing, diffuser vane accessory drive housing, 2nd stage rotor replaced. Fresh annual w/sale. 2nd Dromader airframe less engine has new prop, only needs engine. Lots of spare parts. Asking $150,000. Very negotiable. Call 229524-1134 or 229-220-6343 Order your M18 Dromader Pen and Ink Drawing from our DeSpain Collection today for only $59.99. plus S&H. Call 478-987-2250

Aircraft - Piper

1981 Piper PA-36-375 Turbine Brave, PT6A-20 662 SMOH, 232 SHS, Prop TSO 542, TTAF 5722, 2382 remaining on wing spar, fresh annual, new SATLOC Bantam w/IntelliFlow, Lane adjustable fan & brake, smoker, CP check valve nozzles, Nav/Strobe Instrument/ Landing and taxi lights. Very clean, great flying, great transition airplane. $290K OBO For more information call 318-339-4747 or email lowgoflyers@ gmail.com

1976 PA 36 SUPER BRAVE 400 HP - 3965 Total Time, 66 since Overhaul engine, 66 since IRAN Prop, 4040 hours remaining on wing spar caps, 275 gal hopper, Agrinautics pump and fan, dropped streamlined booms with CP nozzles and check valves, 2” left side load, extended wings, 90 gal fuel with new fuel cells, crop hawk, automatic flagger, pistol grip, nav/strobe/instrument/ landing/taxi and night working lights, left entry step, good paint, tires and glass. Price reduced to $185K or OBO. Contact Johnston Aircraft Service at 559-686-1794, info@johnstonaircraft. com or visit our website at www. johnstonaircraft.com

1976 PA 36 Turbine Brave 550SHP - 6450TT, 3097 since P&W factory O/H PT6A-20A engine with 0 since HSI and compliance with A.D.2014-11-05, 0 SOH 3 Blade Hartzell Prop, 275 gallon hopper, JAS gate, Agrinautics pump, electric brake, dropped streamlined booms with CP nozzles, 2” left side load, improved hopper lid, JAS High Lift Wing Leading Edges, 90 gal fuel, CommRadio, Crophawk, electric turn and bank, clock, nav/strobe/instrument/landing and taxi lights, Del Norte GPS, pistol grip, left entry step, good tires/glass and paint, 1739 hours remaining on wing spar caps. Aircraft is in very good condition and needs to go to work! Call and let’s make a deal! 559-686-1794, Email info@johnstonaircraft.com or visit our website at www.johnstonaircraft.com 1982 Piper Super Cub. Lowest time Piper built Cub on the planet, 650 hours TTSN, 0 SMOH, Stits Fabric, beautiful paint, Com Radio, L3 Lynx transponder with ADSB in-out with touchscreen weather, traffic. $150,000 Call Sun Valley Aviation 956-421-4545

Aircraft - Thrush

2004 Thrush S2R-T660, N204PE, TTAF 7108.2, TTE 8234.2, PT6-67AG, Fresh Annual, Hot Section 190 Hrs ago, Overhauled Vane Ring, New Segments, New PT Blades, SATLOC G4, Flow Control, Load Hawg, COM Radio. $675,000 Call Michael 870-672-2089

2013 Thrush S2R-H80, N3046N, TTAE 3600, Load Hawg, VG’s, Bottom Fuel/ Dual Load, IntelliFlow w/ Smart Pump, Leading Edge Lights, SS Booms, Hopper Rinse, Bantam, Smoker Spreader w/Kicker Plate, CP’s, G4 Intelliflow, MVP 50T Glass Panel.

See spec sheet for details. Make offer, very motivated! Mid-Continent Aircraft, Hayti, MO, 800-325-0885 www. midcont.net

2018 Thrush 510G, S2R-H80- N510HH. This aircraft is equipped with Night lights, Hopper rinse, VG’s, Single point fuel, Electric fan break, Stainless booms, CP11 Nozzles, Intelliflow flow control, Tracmap GPS (if needed), Radio, ADSB, AC/Heat, 4 Blade prop. This clean aircraft was bought new and been with the same owner. Stored inside hangar. It currently has 2,215hrs but will finish with about 2,300hrs and will be ready to go NOVEMBER 1, 2021. $650K 435851-4168

1978 S2R/T-34 THRUSH, N4002S, $240,000 OBO, 24,560TT, Record inlet, Metal Tail, VGs, Fastback, Loadmaster, Bantam with Intelliflow, Stainless Spray Gear, Work Lights, AC, Southwest Aircraft. Call or message for specs. Call Miles at 928-580-9970

1974 400 Gal Turbine Thrush, N5543X, Airframe only no engine. 8900 TT, new Century wings, 0 time prop, A/C, cool seat, 29” tires, spring tail, fabric tail, paint in 2016. Asking $150K OBO Call Kent at 229-2206343 or 229-524-1134

1989 Turbine Thrush, N3097K, TTAF 16500, TTE 16500, OH Fuel Control 2020, SHSI 200, 2016 Century Wing Spars, Vortex generators 2018, Fuel pump OH 2021, AC, Giua Gold new, New Vane Ring segment blades, New Paint. $350,000 Office: 229-524-1134 Cell: 229-2206343 Order your Dual Cockpit Thrush Pen and Ink Drawing from our DeSpain Collection today for only $59.99. plus S&H. Call 478-987-2250

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2015 AT-802A, N3030L, PT6-67AG, 3,110 TT, Fresh Annual, Fresh HOT with the sale, 10” Hydraulic, Gate or Manual 5”, SATLOC G4 w/Flow Control, Vondran Controller, Load HAWG, LED, Pulse Light, Audio Panel, COM, Gramin 345 ADSB in/out. $925,000 Call Michael 870-672-2089

1973 Thrush S2R, Geared 1340 23D40 TSMOH 500, AFTT 8,500, fresh annual, SATLOC M3, AutoCal flow control, Transland spreader and speed ring included. Delivery negotiable. $105K For more information call or text 719-648-9924

1992 Thrush S2R-34 DCSC, TT: 12,538, Pratt & Whitney PT6-34AG, Fresh Gas Generator, Semi-Fresh Power Section, Hartzell 3 Blade Constant Speed, OH’d 7/25, Dual Cockpit w/Observer’s Seat, Bantam M3 with X3 Screen, 2” SS Spray System, CP-09 Nozzles w/Check Valves, Lane Fan & Brake, Wingman, Landing & Night Work Lights, Kawak Throttle Quadrant, VGs, Reabe Hopper Gauge, Hose Style Single Point Fuel System, Smoker, Exhaust covers & Prop Sling. $515K For more information call 620-356-4528

2006 550 Thrush, 4100 TTAF, TPE331-10, Completely loaded - G4 SATLOC, flow control, A/C & heat, booms, spreader, brand new 3 blade Hartzell STC, lots of airframe upgrades. Just completed 270k repairs/ upgrades including new prop, engine prop strike inspection, engine now new power section gearbox parts, all fuel control etc O/H. by Arkansas turbine, fresh hot, new tailwheel spring and accessories. It’s a real work horse.

Ready to work, will deliver. Priced reduced to $399K Call 217-556-6220

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2010 Thrush 510P Dual Cockpit with 4 blade prop and SATLOC Bantam, 3500 TT, 1500 SMOH, 200 SHI and new vane ring, 200 SPOH. Fresh Annual in August. $600,000 Office 229-524-1134, Cell 229-220-6343 or email croomaviation@gmail.com

1978 SR2 Thrush 600, 1471 TT, 300 SMOH. All logs accounted for, never wrecked, very well preserved. Tail is ready to recover but could last a few more hours, no problem. In annual, ready to work.

We are the second owners since new.

Upgraded tailwheel, does have a Comm Radio, 100 AMP generator, SATLOC GPS. The hours ARE CORRECT, One Thousand Four Hundred Seventy One. Original parts and owners manuals. $150,000. Call 660-442-6282 or 660-442-6223

1995 Thrush S2R, TT 11,195.4, PT6A-34 TSO 0.0, Wings 24,000 hrs remaining, New 4 blade propeller, Power intake w/quick change filter, SATLOC w/G4 screen, L7 Light bar, Extended mount, Intelliflow, A/C, Smoker, Load Hawg, Lane Electric Brake, Fan, Spring Tail Wheel w/ 2” extension, Metal tail, Emergency hopper shut off, Booms & spray system, Bottom load fuel, Bottom load feed, New Paint, Fresh annual. Currently under lease but will be available mid August. $575K Call Turbines Inc at 812-877-2587 or email peg@turbinesinc.com

2004 Thrush 550, TTAF 8093, with PT6-60AG 0 shot, 0 time fuel control, Bleed valve, and High pressure pump, 0 SMOH prop, Hyd. gate box, SATLOC G4, booms and spreader. Sale with fresh annual. $420,000 Call 979-257-6695

1996 Ayres S2R G6-510, TTAF:5690, TTE: 10,907, Engine TSMO: 364, Prop TT: 513, C.A.M.’d 400 hrs ago, SATLOC M3 w/small screen, Hartzell 3 Blade, Lane Fan & Brake, VGs, SPFS, Smoker, A/C, Smoker, Fast Start, Battery Mod, EI FP-5 Fuel Flow Indicator, EI Torque Gauge. $375K Call North Star today at 620-356-4528 1992 Thrush S2R-G6, N449AT serial #G6-105, TTAF 6185, TTE since IRAN at CD Aviation 945 hrs., VG’s, night lights, 510 gal. hopper, A/C & heat, cool seat, Garmin GPS, smoker, right boom shut off, long range fuel tanks, comm radio, new spar caps installed 35 hrs. ago, recent prop overhaul by Maxwell Aircraft. Aircraft is in great condition, side load fuel, concord batteries, SATLOC M3 GPS, Intelliflow control, SS boom hangers, booms and center section, CP11 TT nozzles, Lane fan on the pump, Reabe hopper gauge w/side display. $500K OBO Serious inquiries only! Call 701-489-3558

1974 Rockwell S2R-600, TT: 7756, Engine TSMO: 513, Prop TSOH: 0, Geared 1340, SST Booms, Bantam w/G4 Screen, KY 964 Comm, Hartzell 3 blade, Flow Control, Smoker, SPFS, Collins A/C, Extended Wings, Spring tailwheel, Chip Light, Aileron Servo Kit, 24V Electrical System, Flagger, Digital Tach, CropHawk, SS Pump and Electric Brake. New: Battery, A/C compressor, Fuel pump, Spark plugs, Air, Fuel, & Oil filters, Seatbelt/Harness. $160K Call North Star today at 620-356-4528

1996 S2R-G1 Thrush, N2237D, TTAF 9688.0, Super-6 TPE331-6, TSCAM-4928, TSHSI-0, All engine work done by TAE (Ag Air Turbines), Hatfield bottom load fuel, A/C Vortex generators, New SATLOC Bantam, Flow Control, SS Spray System, AFS check vales, CP nozzles, Agrinautics pump, Lane electric brake, Aircraft radios, Fresh Eddie Current.

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2021 510P-34AG, 2” SST Spray System, 3” Side Loader, SST Reinforced 510 Gallon Fiberglass Hopper, 228 Gallon Fuel Capacity, Aluminum Booms, 250 amp Starter/Generator, A/C & Cabin Heat, Hi-Vis LED Wingtip, Navigation, & Strobe Lights, 41” SST Gatebox, Garmin G5 Attitude Indicator, MVP-50 Glass Cockpit, SST Belly Skin, Hartzell Prop, Dual-Caliper Cleveland Brakes, 21” Floatation Tires, Storm Shield, Main Landing Gear Wire Cutters.

Call North Star today at 620-356-4528 to get your quote.

2021 710P-65AG, 2” SST Spray System, 3” Side Loader, SST Reinforced 710 Gallon Fiberglass Hopper, 228 Gallon Fuel Capacity, 250 amp Starter/Generator, A/C & Cabin Heat, Hi-Vis LED Wingtip, Navigation, & Strobe Lights, 41” SST Gatebox, Garmin G5 Attitude Indicator, MVP-50 Glass Cockpit, SST Belly Skin, Hartzell Prop, Dual-Caliper Cleveland Brakes, 21” Floatation Tires, Storm Shield , Main Landing Gear Wire Cutters. Call North Star today at 620-356-4528 to get your quote.

Super nice, super clean, super low time Thrush 660P -67AG, DUAL COCKPIT-DUAL CONTROL, PT-6 powered work horse for sale! ONLY DUAL COCKPIT MODEL CURRENTLY AVAILABLE ON THE PLANET! Outstanding machine for crop spraying, fire suppression, and even patrolling purposes. How about FLIGHT TRAINING for any of the three?

Can outfit for each purpose! Only 428 hours since new! Only 150 hrs. since hot section by Covington, and only 2 hrs. on Hartzell 115” 5 blade prop since overhaul! Get started now! Outfit and spray, firefight, patrol, or instruct, before the season begins! Call Kirby at 615-972-7423 or email k.totty@ comcast.net Order your 510 Thrush Pen and Ink Drawing from our DeSpain Collection.

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CLASSIFIEDS Geared 1340, R-1340-S3H1-G, 670 SMOH, 23D40-303 Hamilton Standard Propeller. All accessories, less exhaust system, as removed from damaged Thrush. $10,000 Call Chad Stuart, Airplane Services, Inc. 850-380-6091 Excellen condition 1974 Thrush S2R, TT 4913, Pratt & Whitney R1340 geared engine, TSMO 229.

Only 378 hours since complete rebuild!

Always hangared. Contact Brent at 308-289-3534 for more information.

CK-AG-29 Wing Splice, Extended Wings, Aileron Servos, 29” Wheels, Spring Tail Wheel, Cold Air Intake, M3 SATLOC, Crop, Hawk, Smoker, New Stainless-Steel Booms, Cool Seat, Bottom Load Fuel. $185K 308-8893481 Visit https://mega.nz/folder/ TnhBxI5b#uPRTR4blbIBcMm9-0Y6a-Q for more pictures.

1977 Thrush S2R Turbine - 11,063 hours TTAF, Johnson Conversion and rebuild in 2007 (ME601E-11 with Avia Prop), Walters ME601E-11 engine with 3 hours Since IRAN (1560 SMOH), 400 gallon Hopper, AG Pilot X GPS with Flow Control (or Satloc Bantam if you prefer), MVP-50 Engine display, Electric Fan Brake, Bottom load fuel, Smoker, A/C, Metal Tail, KAWAK Throttle quadrant, Fiberglass belly, Winglets, Nav lights, Polished Spinner. Fresh Thrush Service Center Annual! Primed and Repainted Engine cowl, leading edges, vertical stab, and winglets. Rebuilt the tailwheel and primed and painted. She’s very clean and ready to go! Bring offers and trades! All specifications are subject to verification upon inspection by buyer. ASI JET is a Factory Authorized Thrush Dealer, Service center, and Parts distributor. Specializing in New and Used aircraft sales, Please Call ASI Jet Sales at 952-941-6255 for more information!

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Price reduced to $475,000 Call Sun Valley Aviation, 956-421-4545

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Order your The AgOp Collage Pen and Ink Drawing from our DeSpain Collection today for only $59.99 plus S&H. Call 478-987-2250 Order your In-Formation Pen and Ink Drawing from our DeSpain Collection today for only $59.99 plus S &H. Call 478-987-2250 Order your Stearman Pen and Ink Drawing from our DeSpain Collection today for only $59.99 plus S&H. Call 478-987-2250

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Bell 206 Spray Helicopters For Sale or Lease! Bell 206 B’s or 206 L’s turnkey spray ready with Simplex System, AgNav or SATLOC GPS. Good component times remaining. Fresh annual with sale. Call Brian 561-7231911 2 Huey helicopter buckets for sale. Call Guy at 803-645-8230 1982 Hiller UH 12-E, 3112 TT, 100 hrs. on new engine. Two spray trucks also for sale. Call Guy at 803-6458230 Order your Bell 206 Helicopter Pen and Ink Drawing from our DeSpain Collection today for only $59.99. plus S&H. Call 478-987-2250

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Pratt & Whitney R-985 & R-1340 Engines in stock. All with new pistons installed. Overhauled by Aero Recip, Covington, Tulsa and Younkin. For more information call Sun Air Parts 661-2577708, Fax 661-257-7710 or email info@sunairparts.com R-985 & R-1340 Complete OHC Cylinder Assemblies OHC in stock, all with new pistons installed and all gaskets and seals to install. We also stock new and overhauled magnetos, OHC carbs, starters fuel pumps, etc.

Top overhaul tool kits $250 each. Call Sun Air Parts 661-257-7708, Fax 661257-7710 or email info@sunairparts. com R1340-AN2 Airmotive Overhaul, New Pistons, mags, harness, carb, with warranty outright/exchange. Call Chester Roberts Supply Co. at 903-429-6805 R1340 Engine Overhaul, New Pistons, New bearings, mags, ignition harness, carb, with warranty outright/exchange.

Call Chester Roberts Supply Co. at 903429-6805 R985-AN1-14B Tulsa Overhaul, New Pistons, Bosch mags. Ignition harness, carb, with warranty outright/exchange.

Call Chester Roberts Supply Co. at 903429-6805 Pratt and Whitney overhauled 1340 cylinders, carburetor, Ag cat spreader call David at 870-550-1664

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(3) PT6A-34AG Engines For Sale, TSO’s 0.0 PT6A-45R TSO 1259.9. Visit our website for spec sheets. Or call or email Jay Streb at 812-877-2587, jay@ turbinesinc.com PT6A-41 Engine For Sale. SN: PCE80472, TT: 11739.2 Hrs TC: 10843 TS0: 1081.1 CS0:609. See spec sheet for details. Call Turbines Inc. at 812877-2587 turbines@turbinesinc.com PT6-15AG For Sale, Fresh gear box, overhaul, 0 since hot section. Call Bill Kingrey for cycle times and price. 979257-6695 PT6A-60AG, 6500 hours TT, Fresh Hot Section, O/H Fuel Control Unit, O/H Bleed Valve, O/H Starter Generator. $295,000 For more information call Bill Kingrey at 979-257-6695

Complete Engine Package! TPE331-6 Engine, 537 Since Cam, CD Aviation Hartzell Propeller HC-B3TN-5M/ 537 Since New, Starter Generator 23047007, 25 Hours Since Overhaul, Beta Tube Included. $177,000 Call Lynn Johnson at 701-360-5966 or 701352-3700 PT6A-27/28 PCE-52074, TSO 2375.

For pricing call Paul at 305-825-2001 or email preeves@jsamiami.com Turbo Cat Kit ready for installation this winter. Kit includes new firewall forward, Hartzell propeller, EI-MVP, custom built fiberglass cowlings and much more. We can supply a new PT6A-15AG or -34AG for a great price with the kit. Includes a “Fly Safe Transition Program” Contact ann@ turbineconversions.com for pricing and additional details.

PT6A-41 Engine For Sale, SN: PCE81159, TT: 10889.1 Hrs TC: 10510 TS0: 1094.0 CS0:567 See spec sheet for details. Call Turbines Inc. at 812877-2587 turbines@turbinesinc.com PT6A-27/28 PCE-40613, TSO 1649.

For pricing call Paul at 305-825-2001 or email preeves@jsamiami.com

Equipment - Booms Tsla Center Boom 59105 (AT401-402) $1200. Please call Peg at Sky Tractor 1-800-437-5319 For Sale - High quality Stainless Steel booms, pumps and nozzles! On the shelf and ready to ship. Contact mark@ turbineconversions.com SUPERBOOMS, Thrush Servos; Maintenance on Ag & G.A. Aircraft Including Heavy Structural Repairs; Robinson Helicopter Service Center; Machining, Fabricating & Sheet Metal Gurus; Tri-State Aviation, ND 800642-5777 or tsa@tri-stateaviation.com www.tri-stateaviation.com

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Contact Mark@turbineconversions.com for more info. www.turbineconversions. com CP09-3P nozzles (59) $50 each, CP04 Poly Check valve (68) $26 each, CP02 SS check valve (76) $80 each, CP09-3E (67) $80 each, 7” SS drops (30) $5.50 each. Please call Peg at Sky Tractor 1-800-437-5319 Get Serious About Selling Classifieds Starting at $19.99 478-987-2250. Fax: 478-352-0025.

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CLASSIFIEDS Newberg Electrostatic Spraying LLC is the exclusive distributor for Spectrum Electrostatic Spray Systems. Do more acres with better performance. Call Ed Newberg 320-848-2745. Serving northern US and Canada. Now STC’d for all 400 and 500 series Air Tractors.

Equipment - Parts Transland deep throated spreader #23537 Excellent shape! $7,5000 Call 870-734-6064 Hatfield hydraulic drop door. USFS / BLM approved. Fits Thrush, Dromader, can be adapted to Air Tractor 502 or 802. Excellent condition, with streamline fairings, all controls included. $11,500 S.E.A.T. program is expanding.

Pilot / contractor training available. Call 530-345-9919 Transland Grip Steps for AT aircraft. Call Billy Maxwell at Transland 940-6871100 or email sales@translandllc.com for more information.

Transland 4” Delrin Hopper Vents. Call Billy Maxwell at Transland 940-6871100 or email sales@translandllc.com for more information.

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Make a Reasonable offer. Call 204856-9422

Equipment - Pumps 2” Mix Pump complete 5hp 3 phase. $1,500 Call 870-734-6064 Stainless Steel Mix Tank approximately 350 gallons. $1,000 Call 870-7346064 New and overhauled Air Tractor and Thrush boost pumps in stock. Delco A4949 motor with 400 GPH AN4101 fuel pump attached. Outright and exchange. We supply these direct to both factories. Call Sun Air Parts 661-257-7708, Fax 661-257-7710 or email info@sunairparts.com 502B spray pump Agrinautics 38” Gate Strut Assembly and complete bottom installation ready to go (Electric brake) second 502B spray pump with all bottom installations (electric motor for fam feather) see pictures of both pumps.

Note: they are used pumps. You have to pick it up. $3,900 870-930-5729

Equipment - Spreaders 25” and 41” SS Spreader. Like new $1,500 each plus freight. Contact Bill @ 863-467-4000 or bill. malone5287@gmail.com Transland 10 vane spreader for 38” gate, new, $9,900; Lane Aviation 281342-5451 or FAX 281-232-5401

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(2)Transland SS 22274 38” to 25” gate box adapters & 21966 Gate Boxes. $2500 Eachor $4000 for both plus shipping. Call 620-525-6712 Ayres Thrush Transland Spreader. All stainless, like new, fits 41” Transland gate box. $1,200 OBO Will deliver anywhere USA for expenses, or will crate and ship for materials and labor.

Call 530-345-9919 TRANSLAND SS SWATHMASTER 25in, has brackets for 402B, Spreader Quick attach 23507, comes w/2 more center sections & 4 wings. $3000 OBO plus shipping. 620-525-6712

Equipment - Support Simplex Spray System for Robinson R44 Helicopters. Everything works great! $15,000 Call 435-851-4168 Like new portable load pad suitable for an 802. Very little use. $20K For more information call 309-759-4826 or email hcurless@farmairinc.com 3” load, mix tank, fully contained and lockable, air compressor and storage complete ready to go. $19,600 For more information call 309-759-4826 or email hcurless@farmairinc.com

GPS - AgPilotX Helicopter light bar now available with the new iPad based guidance system AgPilotX. Entire system with helicopter light bar is 13 lbs. Call Anthony Fay with Insero for details 480-285-4367

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GPS - SATLOC SATLOC G4 Complete System, Includes: CPU, 9-inch touch screen 16:9 ratio, A21™ antenna, External L7 Lightbar, SATLOC IntelliTrac aerial guidance software. Features: Intel Dual-Core i7 processor, 2 powered USB ports (optional USB Hub with 3 ports), 4 GB RAM, 32 GB optional storage space on Mini SATA drive, SATLOC G4 IntelliTrac Software for unlimited waypoints, polygon points, maps and jobs, Convert .shp files to .job files inside IntelliTrac Software, Data sharing with 3rd Party Software, Supports AgLaser altimeter. $17,995 plus shipping. Call North Star today at 620-356-4528 2 Year Old SATLOC G4 GPS System for sale, like new. Also have various used GPS systems. AG PILOTX DEALER. $13,000 Call Tanner J. Sotvik at DEVILS LAKE AERO SERVICE 701520-0229 or 701-662-4416

(2) SATLOC G4 GPS w/IntelliFlow. $14,000 each. Call Ed at 361-9477891 or 361-387-9090

Help Wanted Pilots wanted for the 2022 spray season for a larger spray operation located in the Central US. Turbine Air Tractors and Thrush. Applicants must have a strong work ethic and must be willing to travel during the spray season of April through October. Benefits include health insurance, life insurance, and PTO. Pay is based on experience. Email references and resume to blindads@agairupdate. com Subject: ID#3452 Pilot wanted April 1, 2022 thru October 1, 2022. Turbine Thrush 660 & 510.

Would spray for my operation and corn run in southern Minnesota. If interested could also help with harvest on my farm after flying is finished. 701-261-5299 AT-802 pilot needed for established operation in rice county flying good equipment. Herbicide experience is necessary. Work March through June in Arkansas and be able to go up north on a corn run. Call 870-830-1585 Established South Central operation looking for a full-time Air Tractor pilot to begin immediately. Brand new planes!

Must have a great work ethic! Email resume and references to blindads@ agairupdate.com Subject: ID#3298.

Seeking pilot/manager for North Central 5-Turbine operation. Duties would include scheduling aircraft maintenance, coordinating with ground crews, managing pilots, networking with other applicators for increased acreage, and aerial application when needed. Guaranteed income plus acres sprayed. Email resume and references to blindads@agairupdate.com Subject: ID#3426 Pilot Wanted for the 2022 Season: Kinniburgh Spray Service Ltd is in the Southern Alberta irrigation district.

This means consistent acres for pilots year after year. Even on dry years like this year. We are looking for Air Tractor 502/802 Pilots for the 2022 season that are looking for a career in Agricultural and Forestry Aviation. We are willing to train the right candidate if they have the right attitude and show team enthusiasm. If you are interested in a consistent income and a fair work environment, then please contact us at 403-223-8245 or info@ kinniburghspray.com Pilot needed - Full Time / Year Around.

Benefits: Health insurance paid by employer. Located in Central and Northeastern Oklahoma. Pay is based on experience and negotiable. Email resume to wespray4u@yahoo.com or call 405-262-6566

Jonair (1988) Ltd in Portage la Prairie, MB, Canada is seeking 2 experienced turbine pilots to join our growing team for the upcoming 2022 year & beyond.

To apply, please send resume to BobbiLynn Cook at bobbi-lynn@jonair.com Looking for AT-802 pilot for the 2022 season. Rice and Cotton. Long-Standing Southern Operation. Email resume and references to blindads@agairupdate. com Subject: ID#3412 Experienced Rice Pilot needed in South Texas. Above average percentage paid.

Email inquiries and qualifications to blindads@agairupdate.com, Subject: ID#3396 All inquiries must include full name, phone number, and email address.

Established Central US ag operation is looking to develop a long-term relationship with a pilot and/or operator to help during the busy fungicide season. The season usually starts the 2nd week of July and runs through the 1st of August. We prefer AT402/502 aircraft, and the pilot must be experienced with solid references. We are a well-run operation that prides itself on safety, quality and efficiency. We can provide references to interested parties.

Please email resume to blindads@ agairupdate.com Subject: ID#3382 Well established Georgia Ag business looking for full time mechanic/pilot thatis energetic and willing to be a team player. Salary is negotiable depending on experience and qualifications.

Please email resume and references to blindads@agairupdate.com, Subject: ID#3369 Nebraska Aerial Application business is expanding! Needing team-oriented pilots, loaders, and an A&P. Applicants must have a strong worth ethic, be willing to learn and be drama free. Both piston and turbines used for application.

All equipment is well maintained.

Loaders could move into other positions and training is available. A&P duties include maintaining ag planes and a few company owned private use planes.

This A&P position requires longer seasonal hours but is offset with extra time off in the winter. Benefits and other perks included. Please email inquiries to blindads@agairupdate.com, Subject ID#3365 Midwest operator seeking experienced 502 pilot for 2021 fungicide run. Idea opportunity for motivated individual who would like to become an operator. Email resume and references to cadyaerial@ gmail.com Croom Aviation is looking to hire a Ag Pilot with at least 2000 hours of ag flying time. Please contact our office at 229-524-1134 or call Kent Croom on his cell 229-254-6343.

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Large Midwest operation looking for AT-502, AT-802 and -42 510 Thrush pilots for the 2022 season. Pilots must have 500 hours of Turbine Ag time.

Also Multi-engine turbo prob experience would be a bonus to fly our Piper Cheyenne for business trips throughout the year. Slobs and princesses need not apply, only hardworking pilots with a good work ethic. No time to babysit! Email resume and references to blindads@agairupdate.com Subject: ID#3359 Looking for pilot to fly Thrush 510. We need somebody that can fill in during corn and cotton runs. We have other flying coming in daily. You would also be able to take plane somewhere if you have a connection looking for help. A lot of possibilities to discuss. Call 806930-4966 Ag Air Aircraft in Corning, Arkansas is hiring aircraft maintenance technicians.

Excellent working environment, competitive pay and plenty of work.

Turbine and/or electrical experience is a plus. Must have a positive attitude to be considered. Please email resume and references to kevin.agair@gmail.com or call 870-857-3744 if interested.

Well established agriculture business is looking for a full time, long term ag pilot in West Texas for 502 Air Tractor.

Must have turbine experience, SATLOC experience helpful. Housing available.

Contact: Office 806-946-3399, Mobile 806-946-7309. Resume may be emailed to kingagsudan1@gmail.com CDL drivers needed to support helicopter spray operations. Full time positions available with several work schedules to choose from to include 3 weeks on, 3 weeks off and a seasonal schedule. Also, candidates can earn a pilots license or rated pilots can receive aerial application training. Call or email to discuss your future. 561-723-1911 or email parker561@me.com CAMM Air is looking for energetic A&P candidates for our Spencer, Iowa location. Candidates shall possess A&P certificate. Will train right individual.

All turbine Air Tractors serviced. Also service corporate aircraft including King Air, Beechjet and Citation aircraft.

Please send resume with salary requirements to cammair1@gmail.com VersaAir Services in Kansas is looking for a fixed wing Thrush S2R turbine pilot for the 2021 season. VersaAir Services is a successful helicopter operator diversifying into the fixed wing market and seeking an individual that we can grow the fixed wing division with. We are placed in a great location in eastern Kansas with private asphalt runway. Please email jsutton@versaair. com and/or rdeweese@versaair.com for more info.

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ISO experienced / licensed aircraft technician, mainly specializing in agriculture aircraft (Air Tractor & PT6A turbine engines). We have a strong growing business here, if you are interested in a long term career.

Starting $20 to $30 per hour and that is negotiable. Must pass drug test. If interested call Steve at 870-919-3625 R44 Raven II Ag Pilot Needed: The position is for 5-6 weeks, Corn Run in Iowa, early July to mid-August.

Ag PilotX, GPS, Flow Control. We will provide a $2,000 sign on bonus, all lodging, operate in one location. Pay based on experience. Send resume/ inquiries to elyhelicopters@yahoo.com G-10 Thrush pilot for corn. We only operate out of 2 locations. SATLOC with shape files. Usually lasts about 4 weeks.

Contact Frank Ousley at fousley@citlink. net or call 815-631-3113 Bell 206 Spray Pilot Needed - Are you a helicopter pilot looking to make a difference in the world of public health? Are you looking to join an amazing organization that values people, the planet, and doing the right thing? Then keep reading to learn more about Clarke’s Lead Pilot opportunity! Working out of our office in Roselle, Illinois, the Lead Pilot will provide contract mosquito and aquatic herbicide control services to Clarke’s customers in the Midwest via targeted aerial application from April to October each year. Aerial applications will be made in high traffic areas while safely working around controlled and uncontrolled airports. Schedule will be flexible, and similar to a two week on, two week off so you’ll still have some time for summer at home!

Travel expenses will be covered by Clarke. We’re seeking an independent, self-motivated, detail oriented, and safety conscious individual with a passion for the outdoors and previous experience to join us in our mission to make communities around the world more livable, safe and comfortable.

Qualifications and expectations can be found on AgAir Update’s website http:// classifieds.agairupdate.com/details. php?id=3272 Interested candidates should visit Clarke’s website, click on careers and submit resume online www. clarke.com Hello folks! VersaAir Services is looking for a Class A truck drivers to support helicopter operations in Kansas and surrounding states. This position will require a class A and tanker endorsement. Great job with good people in a fast paced atmosphere. If your a pilot wanting to fly then don’t be afraid to apply as a driver as we are rapidly growing and will need folks to make that transition. If your interested please let me know via email jsutton@ versaair.com. Thanks!

Open Seat for the Corn Run in July and August flying an Air Tractor 602 or Turbine Thrush. Turbine Ag Time is required for this position. If you have any turbine ag time and are interested in an Illinois seat this summer please contact Travis Hermann 217-6076383.

Kindersley Air-Spray Ltd. requires 1 professional agricultural turbine spray pilot to pilot Turbine Thrush 510s for the 2021 spray season.

Anticipated start date: May 10, 2021 thru September 7th 2021. Education: Commercial pilots license, Pesticide applicators license. Applicant must have a minimum 1500 hours of agricultural spray experience of which 1000 hours must be on a Turbine Thrush or Air Tractor, up to date medical, be proficient in speaking, reading and writing English, be capable of operating SATLOC GPS systems or the equivalence, perform basic maintenance and servicing on aircraft, maintain journey logs following transport Canada guidelines, have a clean flight record, be insurable through our insurance company. Wage/Salary: $75/hr based on 40hr/week. Benefits: Benefits package available, Workers Compensation provided, possibility of a seasonal bonus. Email resumes including references to advanced. aviation@sasktel.net. Only successful applicants meeting all requirements will be contacted. Kindersley Air Spray Ltd. Box 2005 Kindersley Sask. S0I 1S0 Office: 306-463-4600 North Dakota aviation operation looking for an Experienced and “PASSIONATE” A&P/IA and pilot to fly/maintain/rebuild turbine Thrush and North American AT6 aircraft. Flying season runs from June through August. TPE-331 and sheet metal experience preferred. If you do not love aviation, and enjoy maintaining and flying airplanes, please do not apply.

Email resume and references to Luke at luke@ltenterprisesnd.com Two Helicopter Ag Pilots Needed. At least 1 year ag experienced preferred.

Must be dependable with good work ethic. Call 641-821-0015 or email speasaviation@hotmail.com Established CO Operation seeking insurable 402/502 pilot with minimum 500 AT hours. Must have herbicide experience & willing to work in controlled airspace. Interview will include a test flight & water application.

Nice on-site RV park. Qualified applicants please send resume to: airdusters@rtebb.net Helicopter Pilot - Position available spraying in South Texas. April thru November. Room and Board provided with excellent pay. Call Cameron Hendrickson at 815-739-6813 or 815384-5151

Experienced Rotary-Wing AG Pilot Needed - Pilot with experience wanted for 2021 and beyond. At least three full seasons of Forestry experience is and row crop experience is preferred.

Our season runs from first of March through beginning of November throughout the South and Midwest.

B&S Air, Inc. operates some of the cleanest and well equipped OH-58’s, 206B’s, and Long Rangers in the industry, and we spare no expense on our maintenance program. We run two batch trucks and a turnkey with all crews to maximize productivity.

Percentage based pay system with no limits to earning potential. Call 229838-6733 or visit us at https://www. bandsairinc.com/ Looking for Ag & King Air Simulator Instructors. Instructors are 1099 contractors. Work is on a per student basis. 1-3 day courses and paid by the day. Work one on one with the students. Classroom and simulator instruction. Days are 9-5 with no weekends. Lodging fees are covered for instructors that travel in to our location to teach. Flight instructor certificate not needed. Looking for someone who has an Ag pilot background/ experience. Turbine experience is a must. Could be active or retired. Must have an interest in teaching and passing on their knowledge to others in the industry. Email resume and references to blindads@agairupdate.com Subject: ID#2710 Looking for the right pilot. Wilbur-Ellis is looking for a Bell 47 Pilot with row crop spray experience to work in King City California. King City is located in the south end of the Salinas Valley, 150 miles south of San Francisco, 60 miles south east of Monterey. I have a full-time position available for the right applicant. You must be stable and accident/violation free. WilburEllis has excellent benefits, including company provided transportation.

The season runs from the middle of March through the middle of November. The work is difficult and challenging but rewarding. Pilots are expected to be in the office in the afternoon to prepare for the following days work. This is a full time position for an experienced Bell 47 pilot with row crop experience. If this is something you are interested in, please send me a resume. Mark Plaskett 831-594-2430mplaskett@ wilburellis.com Large midwest aerial application business looking for A&P and IA mechanics. Must have Air Tractor and PT6A experience. Starting salary is 7080K if qualified. Must supply a resume and three references. Send resume and references to blindads@agairupdate. com, Subject: ID#2234 or fax to 478352-0025

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CLASSIFIEDS Ag pilot wanted - Gravity Ag Services of Vauxhall, Alberta, Canada is an expanding company looking for an 500hr experienced, insurable, Canadian Commercial licensed aerial applicator to join our team. Our team utilizes the Thrush 510p to service our customers.

The successful applicant will be required to safely and efficiently fly on both irrigation and dry land from May to September. We are looking for a strong work ethic to professionally work with customers and crew. Email resume to gravityag@outlook.com Due to expansion opportunities we are looking for experienced 502 and 802 pilots. Must have knowledge of the latest GPS units. This is a full time turbine position in the Upper Midwest.

Historically from May to October. We spray a large variety of row crops.

Mostly fungicides, insecticides and micro nutrients no herbicide work. We also do dry fertilizer and cover crops.

We are looking for team players willing to grow with us. A pilot with a strong work ethic is desired. Please reply with a resume to Agpilot502802@gmail. com IA and A&P mechanics needed. Call 870-295-6213 Salary depending on qualifications and experience.

Miscellaneous EASTMAN 2380 Turbine Oil - $517/ case, 24/1, plus freight from Atlanta.

Subject to price increases from the manufacturer. AeroShell 560 turbine oil at $355 case plus freight from Atlanta.

Other Turbine oils are available. Call Jim Watkins at 281-224-6308 or email jwat4fsu@yahoo.com. Service-related Disabled Veteran Owned Business.

Used Items In Stock at Sky TractorAgrinautics: 66450 Fan $250, 65113 Hyd. Pump $600, 65217 Pump $700.Transland: 21066 Hyd. Pump $800, Hub Assy Weath Aero $500, 21992 Pump & Lane Brake $1200.

Lane: 111XLA Brake $700, 111FA Fan $550. Weath Aero: 5 Blade Fan, Transland $700.Call Peg at Sky Tractor 1-800-437-5319 AV-KOR1 Helmets Available Now! The AV-KOR1 helmet is made out of a fiberglass composite, utilizing Koroyd and an anti-microbial comfort liner making it the lightest aviation helmet on the market. Features Fire Retardant trim and a FIDLOCK buckle system.

Works with any aftermarket in-helmet communications devices. North Star Aviation is the First Lift Aviation Dealer.

Call today at 620-356-4528 and ask for Kyle.

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Hot Shot transistorized 3 foot cattle prod. $50 Call 402-841-5144 David Clark Headset, Model number H10-13S, stereo headset in excellent shape $250. Call 402-841-5144 Ag Cat tail spring A1590-1 $1200.

Please call Peg at Sky Tractor 1-800437-5319 Christmas Trump Shirt - Short and Long Sleeve. Youth small through 4XL. Contact Storm Aeronautics at 402367-3213 or send email to parts@ stormaeronatuics.com to place an order.

Trump Shirts “Keeping Ag Aviation Great”. Three different designs featuring an Ag Cat, Air Tractor and Thrush.

Colors are Gray, Black, and Red. Sizes Range from Youth medium through 4XL. Shirts cost $25. Contact Storm Aeronautics at 402-367-3213 or send email to parts@stormaeronatuics.com to place an order.

Toy plastic model Air Tractor. 12” wingspan, removable stand. Great toy for the kids or desktop model. $15 + s/h order online at www.takeofftoys.com or e-mail trevoredwards@sw.rr.com Keep your drink hot or cold in this insulated 16oz Air Tractor Tervis Tumbler. $14.99 plus S&H Made in the USA, Makes a great gift. For more information call 478-987-2250 Vino? They do say ag pilots age like wine. Place your favorite wine in these high quality Rolf wine glasses etched with an ag plane, sold as a Set of 4. $49.99 plus S&H Makes a great gift.

For more information call 478-9872250 Aviator Backpack and matching coin purse (sold separately). For more information call 478-987-2250 New from our DeSpain Collection, Pen and Ink Thirsty Stone Coasters. These high quality coasters will look great on any desktop or table. Set of 4. $29.99 plus S&H Makes a great gift! For more information call 478-987-2250 DeSpain Collection Customizable Note Cards featuring your favorite Pen and Ink drawing. $19.99 plus S&H For more information call 478-987-2250

Operations For Sale or Wanted For Sale: Well Established Aerial Application business with bases throughout Alberta. Solid customer base in Irrigation and Dryland areas. Turnkey, there is nothing you would need to add to run this business. Email inquires to blindads@agairupdate.com Subject: ID#3409

Air and ground operation is in need of someone to take over. This is a yearround spraying business operating 2 AT-802’s and 2 John Deer sprayers with all needed equipment. Call our office at 928-346-1447 or cell at 702-5398952 Established Southern US aerial spraying service for sale. Includes large hangar with newly updated offices on a state highway. Private asphalt runway on 15 acres. We will sell with or without aircraft and rolling stock.

Operating from same location for over 45 years. All irrigated crop ground rice, corn, cotton and soybeans. It’s ready to go for 2022. Email inquires to blindads@agairupdate.com Subject: ID#3376

Parts - Airframe TCL 41” Variable Rate Gate with manual control for Thrush with 1 rotor available for immediate shipping. VRG delivers ultra low volume 2#/acre to 20#/acre in a variety of products from fine sand to coarse corn cob. Contact Mark at mark@turbineconversions.com for special pricing on this unit.

AT-602 Wings, as removed from wind damaged 602, 3435 hrs remaining on spar caps, repairs being made, will be ready for annual season. $40,000. Call Chad Stuart, Airplane Services, Inc. 850-380-6091 AT-502B Wings, as removed from 2005 AT-502B, Long Spars, 2660 hrs remaining on spar caps, $25,000. Call Chad Stuart, Airplane Services, Inc. 850-380-6091 AT-502 sheet metal. Some new, some used, all airworthy. Mostly fwd. lower fuselage. $500 for all OBO. Will box and ship for materials and labor. Call 530-345-9919 Ayres Thrush ‘Hoerner’ wing tips.

Left and right, no damage. $500 for the pair. Call Gary at 530-345-9919 garyhendricksonn3n@gmail.com Blue anodized aluminum windshield washer replacement cap with handle. $65 Available online only at www. ambericandesigns.com Questions ambericandesignsllc@gmail.com Air Tractor Bolt In Step Extension - CNC cut anodized aluminum step extension that bolts into existing step for more footing and traction. $125 Available online only at www.ambericandesigns. com Questions - ambericandesignsllc@ gmail.com CNC cut anodized aluminum spray mirrors. $275 with mirror online only. $275 www.ambericandesigns.com Questions - ambericandesignsllc@ gmail.com

Titanium Full Swivel Tail Wheel Now approved and available for S2R 660 Thrush - full swivel tailwheel with Titanium Tail Spring. Durable, long life span, lighter weight option for Thrush owners. Contact ann@ turbineconvesions.com for information and to reserve your production slot for this winter. www.turbineconversions. com Reinforced Thrush Leading Edges - Send your leading edges to us and we will reinforce them with durable custom extruded aluminum reinforcements. Available directly from Turbine Conversions,Ltd ann@ turbineconversions.com or contact our favorite Thrush dealer for more information. www.turbineconversions. com Ag Cat Factory Frames - (All Models) fixture per­fect, ready to install. All upgrades, hoppers, long fuel, hi-wings, struts/wires, all components, special hardware and dispersal equipment.

AgCat Sales & Service since 1971.

870-886-2418/2489F, 870-759-1692 Cell, frank.kelley@ag-cat.com B-Model Ag Cat Wings. Long range fuel.

Good paint. $10k each, $35k for the set. Call Chad Stuart, Airplane Services, Inc. 850-380-6091 1960 Piper Comanche Wings Complete with Gear, Paint Fair, No Hail damage.

Also have fuselage. $9,000 Call Tanner J. Sotvik at DEVILS LAKE AERO SERVICE 701-520-0229 or 701-6624416 AT-402 airframe sandblasted, primed and painted. Comes with belly skin and Turtle deck. Also includes tail spring and tires. Includes tail but needs left elevator. $35,000 Call Bill Kingrey at TURBINE YELLOWJACKET PARTNERS LLC. 979-257-6695 Front seat for a Citabria 7 series and a Maule tail wheel, tire size 8x3.00x4 single arm in fair condition with good bearings and race. Both for $175 Call Don at 402-841-5144 or email flyagrp@cableone.net Smokers/Driftfinders - Minimize your off target drift risk. FAA/PMA’d and STC’d for installation on most Agricultural aircraft. 44 years in business and over 6,200 units in service. For more information Please call Compro Aviation, Inc. 785-899-2294 or visit us on the web at www.comproaviation. com REBUILT 29” THRUSH LANDING GEAR IN STOCK & we can REPAIR / REBUILD yours to LIKE NEW STATUS. Johnston Aircraft Service, INC. 559-686-1794 / Email parts@ johnstonaircraft.com or visit our website at www.johnstonaircraft.com

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CLASSIFIEDS Super “B” Ag-Cat Wings, fresh paint, metalized, big fuel. $50,000 Call Bill Kingrey at TURBINE YELLOWJACKET PARTNERS LLC. 979-257-6695 Tools for reaming attach bolts Wing Main (Centerwing to Outboard wing) attachment joints for Dromader M-18 per repair service bulletin #e/02.170/2000 Available for rent.

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Parts - Engine AgJet TPE331 SB+/SC+/FC+ Conversions - Installed or assembled Kits with Heavy Ring-Mods. Allied/ AmAg Ag Cat Center 870-8862418/2489F, 870-759-1692 Cell frank.kelley@ag-cat.com Radial Parts: 2 Fiberglass AT Speed Rings, 1 THRUSH Speed Ring, 1 Radial engine mount with ring. Make offer.

Cascade Aircraft Conversions. 509-6351212. info@cacaircraft.com -34 Cascade Inlet System. Firewall FWD for S2R Thrush. $35,000 Call Bruce’s Flying Service at 229-7254150 Ground Support Engine Driven Transfer Pump, Zanoni Equipment’s all stainless steel construction paired with a Honda 13 HP motor. Special introductory pricing orders received by January 31, 2020. Contact Mark@ turbineconversions.com for more info.

Parts - Other Complete stock of all P&W R-985 & R-1340 engine parts. Also P&W tools, Top OH tool kits, Time Rite kits, engine mounts, Champion & Tempest spark plugs, parts books, OH and maintenance manuals, Mags, carbs, starters, fuel pumps boost pumps. Also, R-1830, R-200, R-2800 engines and parts. Call Sun Air Parts 661-2577708, Fax 661-257-7710 or email info@sunairparts.com Air Tractor Gen 2 Firegate, Complete system, Fairings, wire-harness. Call For Price: 870-672-2089 2013 AT-502B Firewall forward parts: Engine mount, cowling and Ram Air filter system. All parts with less than 1400 hours total time. Very clean and well maintained AT-502B. Call Cascade Aircraft Conversions for more details 1-509-635-1212 Cockpit adjustable flow control kit.

Manual control or GPS variable rate ready. Integrates into existing hydraulic systems. More info at Kawak Aviation Technologies 541-385-5051 www. kawakaviation.com

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602 Wingman System. Call for Price: 870-672-2089 Thrush S2R STC battery retrofit kit.

300% longer battery service life. 200% faster starts. Battery replacement cost 25% of original. For more information call Kawak Aviation Technologies at 541-385-5051 or visit www. kawakaviation.com

Position Wanted We have an open seat for an Air Tractor 400/402 pilot for the 2021 Corn Run and future seasons. We’ve been in business for 23 years and added 4 Air Tractors since last season. We fly the majority of our acres in Illinois and Iowa. If interested please send a brief pilot history to Craig at 815-499-4704 or email woodleycraig@hotmail.com.

Completed seat 1,2, & 3 courses including hazmat courses. Looking for Aerial Fire sponsorship and long lasting relationship with company. Please call or text Hale 678-779-4726

Propellers Hartzell Propeller for an AT-802 -67, HC-B5MP-3F/M11276NS, Approximately 100 hrs. Since New. Available the first part of November $65,000 Email inquiries to blindads@ agairupdate.com Subject: ID#3424 AT-402/AT-502 3 Blade Propeller, new in box NOS. $39,900 FOB Ft. Pierce, FL. Contact Rick Stone at Southeastern Aircraft Sales & Service 800-441-2964 or mail@southeasternaircraft.com Hamilton Standard 12D-40-6167-12 Propeller. 102” diameter, FAA approved for R-1340. $5,000 also Hamilton Standard 2D-30-6167-12 100” diameter. $4,500 Call 530-345-9919 12D40-6101-12 Propeller, Overhauled with 8130 Form. For more information call Chester Roberts Supply Co. at 903429-6805 Hamilton Standard Propeller 23D40 with 6511-12S Blades Overhauled Completely includes 8130-3 form. For more information call Chester Roberts Supply Co. at 903-429-6805 Hamilton Standard 22D40 Hydromatic Propeller 6533 blades overhauled complete with distributor valve and prop, Governor. For more information call Chester Roberts Supply Co. at 903429-6805 23D40 with New Blades 6511A-9 installed. Completely Overhauled Propeller. With 8130-3 form. For more information call Chester Roberts Supply Co. at 903-429-6805

QUALITY Propellers For Sale 33D506601A18 OHC.....................$29,000 23D40-6601A19 OHO..........$28,500 22D40-6533A12 OHO.........$28,500 12D40-AG100-4S 375-SOH...$19,500 12D40-AG100-2 828-SOH....$17,500 2D30-AG100-2 OHC...........$23,000 Call AmAg, 870-886-2418/2489F frank.kelley@ag-cat.com Two Hartzell 3 Blade Props available. $5000 each Call Kent Croom at 229524-1134 Hartzell Prop HC-B3T10-3D, Blades T10282N +4, Prop Assy, Buckhead, Spinner, OSTMOH Prop. $28,000 Call Bruce’s Flying Service at 229-725-4150

Real Estate Lot for sale: One-acre-square house lot for sale in new Plane Living Sky Park neighborhood with 2,000 s.f., all brick, covenants. Lot is one of 13 directly on new sod runway. Taxi out of your hangar, directly onto the runway.

Located in Peach County, Georgia.

Public water, septic sewer, paved streets, curb and gutter, street lights.

Less than five miles west of I-75, Exit 142, approximately five miles to Fort Valley, GA and approximately 10 miles to Warner Robins, GA. Google It! South side of Hwy 96 at 50 Lane Rd., Fort Valley, Georgia 31030 (Google photo before development). Save thousands and buy from owner. $25,000 OBO. 478.987.2250

Seat Wanted Looking for 2022 Seat in Arkansas, Louisiana and/or Mississippi. Searching for a permanent position in these three states or the surrounding area.

Insecticide, fungicide, herbicide “rice herbicide” and fertilize experience. No accident history or drift claim. Majority Thrush 510 time but various times in Air Tractor 402 to 802. Resume and references upon request. Email all inquires to blindads@agairupdate.com Subject: ID#3438 South African pilot, 56 year old, experienced on radial and turbine engines. Holder of South African commercial license, single and multi engine, IF and Ag ratings. AG Aircraft types PA 25, PA36, G164B, Air Tractor 301/401/402 B, Thrush 510 S2R-34T. Willing to relocate anywhere in the US or Canada, kindly email: craighhamman4@gmail.com Experienced Ag Pilot looking for Fall and Winter Work - 16,000 AG Time, 13,000 Turbine Air Tractor 402, 502, 502A, 602-65. Some night work. Looking for Oct. through Feb work. Great Health, 41 seasons, current first Class Medical, A&P, IA. Email inquiries to blindads@ agairupdate.com Subject: ID#3408

Ag Pilot seeking work with a reputable operation. 1093 TT, 779 Ag, 85 Turbine. Extensive background in agriculture. A&P mechanic with ag aircraft experience. Resume and references available. Please Email: AgFlyer40@gmail.com AG Pilot looking for Seat, 7000hr AG Pilot looking for seat for 2022 season and beyond. Clean record. East of the Rockies only. 402-807-5020 or email IFlyag66@gmail.com Pilot looking for corn run. Experienced flying an Ag Truck, Ag Cat and Thrush round engine. Over 9,000 TT hrs., 5,000 in ag, 600 TT hrs. on twin engine turbine. Please call Donnie at 229-457-1769 or 229-424-5343 AG pilot (25+ years experience) seeks winter work in Jan/Feb/March and possibly April. A definite team player with excellent references. Looking for a professional operation with wellmaintained equipment. 8,800 hrs total time, 7,800 AG, most in AT-502. No accidents, no claims. Will consider other opportunities as well. Thank you for your consideration. Please email all inquiries to 1spraypilot724@gmail.com or call 386-963-5717, Cell 386-8540761.

Looking for long term seat in the US. I have an interesting combination of Aviation Engineering, Flight Training and Flight Experience, both Rotary Wing and Fixed Wing. Currently flying Thrush 510, Robinson 44, Robinson 66 and King Air C90. Experience in liquid application, aerial seeding and aerial fertilization. I am also URT (Upset Recovery Training) and aerobatics flight instructor giving instruction for more than 80 pilots already including AG pilots on how to recover airplanes form upset attitudes. Pilot Licenses: ATP, IFR Helicopter, CFI, TT Rotary Wing 1,500 hours. Resume and references are attached. For more information email cerionidiego@gmail.com Pilot Looking For Heli Seat - Bell 212, UH, Rangers, 500s, 133, 137, 135 AG. OAS Cardable, Extensive experience with mosquito Vector control. 40 years of ag pilot experience. Call Andy at 850686-2020

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Stephanie Williams - President stephanie@southerfield.com John Lott - Parts & Maintenance john@southerfield.com www.southerfield.com

223 Frankie Williams Road, Americus, GA 31709 Phone: 229-924-2813 Fax: 229-924-4356

STATE OFFICE OF THE GEORGIA AGRICULTURAL AVIATION ASSOCIATION

We rebuild and STOCK THRUSH WINGS and LANDING GEAR We can rebuild your broken Thrush or Brave fuselage We rebuild Brave wings including new Spar Caps 24 HR. PHONES: 559-686-1794 or 686-2161 | FAX: 559-686-9360 P.O. Box 1457, Tulare, CA 93275 Se Habla Español info@johnstonaircraft.com parts@johnstonaircraft.com www.johnstonaircraft.com agairupdate.com | A 59

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Pratt & Whitney Canada Designated Overhaul Facility (DOF)

Specializing in the Maintenance and Overhaul of the PT6A, R985 & R-1340 Engine Series.

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Ag Aviation’s Magazine | November 2021