RARE AERIAL FIREFIGHTERS! Saskatchewan Government Convair CV-580 action in La Ronge!

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@Slide164 Ай бұрын

Mark, my son is a wildland firefighter based out of Dorintosh by Meadowlake. He really enjoyed your video and ID’d several of these Convairs and plus the voice of the bird dog pilot that came up on the radio. Over the last 3 summers he has been on most the fires including out of the Laronge base.

@PY5AB Ай бұрын

Congratulations fire fightings, you are an example to the world!!! I'm 70 years old, the same age as one of the aircraft, at least. Antonio from Brazil.

@Chris_at_Home Ай бұрын

I used to commute between Anchorage, Alaska and a pump station in a 580. They retired them because of the cost to install a secure cockpit door. The one we flew in came out of the factory in March of 1953, the same age as me.

@PY5AB Ай бұрын

one year and one month older than me! April 22, 1954. 🥴

@crushingvanessa3277 Ай бұрын

Nice to see them still going. Hopefully they find a good home or get restored back to passenger configuration. I remember seeing their PBYs they had back in 1990.

@asquithmainlines699 Ай бұрын

Used to see these at the base in Meadow Lake all the time. They would fly right over my yard on approach/takeoffs. Great video thanks.

@LarsDcCase Ай бұрын

These are indeed classic airliners

@georgep5032 Ай бұрын

Nice work, Mark. Thanks for sharing the video of these magnificent aircraft.

@JelmersAviation Ай бұрын

Really amazing video!

@machpodfan Ай бұрын

Those Convairs have charisma...it'll be interesting to see if the Q-400s have 70 year flying careers like the Convairs did.

@acersalman8258 Ай бұрын

Beautiful planes ❤

@Conn653 Ай бұрын

Love the '580' ! Interesting, I've never seen a 580 with rounded prop tips, only squared tips. These were with the old Allegheny Airlines CV-580's. (Yes, I'm that old 🙂 )

@jamesburnside3023 Ай бұрын

Great to these old birds still earning their keep.

@JoseHernandez-xn6tp Ай бұрын

If I am not mistaken probably those Q-400’s that coming in 2027 are probably ex Horizon Air . This is a just a 😊 theory because I know Canada built those Q-400’s

@JollyGreen7277 Ай бұрын

I believe one of those Q-400's are ex Air Berlin. I saw a photo of the first one. Registered as C-FFYJ

@Adriatic1290 Ай бұрын

They have tanker 520 which is a new Q-400 and is looks amazing

@SuperjumboAEVSPlanespotting Ай бұрын

This CV-580 sounds like C-130 Hercules

@jimh3191 Ай бұрын

Probably ex Conair aircraft from Abbotsford BC, they would have converted them to air tankers, and had them in service for years, but have been phased out of their fleet reciently. Looks like Saskatchewan was a buyer.

@YQR-Aviation Ай бұрын

Did you fly into Saskatoon and drive up, or did you take Rise from YXE?

@MarkBrandonAviation 24 күн бұрын

I drove from Saskatoon

@larrylefebvre2237 Ай бұрын

Why not use CL 415 instead? Just skim the water from lakes intead of having to re-supply at an airport?

@MarkBrandonAviation Ай бұрын

They use the CL’s actual firefighting but the convair’s use a special fire retardant mix which they use a lot more to protect parts of the forest that hasn’t been hit by wildfires yet but is in the path of the approach fire. That’s just 1 out of many missions these aircraft do which makes them an essential tool along with the CL’s.