Fire Bombers, Summer 2024. Natrona County International Airport.

This has been a horrible year for fires. There's nothing good about that whatsoever.

It has made for some interesting plane spotting, however.

Indeed, the airport put in a fire tanker station/base just last year.  That turned out to be, unfortunately, a good thing.

Bombardier CL-215-6B11 (CL-415) water scooper belonging to Aero-Flite Inc.

A C-130 fire bomber.

British Aerospace BAE 146 belonging to Neptune Aviation Services.

Air Tractor.

 

Canadair CL-415 Superscoopers at Pathfinder Reservoir.

CL-415 Superscoopers at Pathfinder Reservoir.

They're fighting a nearby fire.

Fire Bombing Air Tractor AT-802s at the Natrona County International Airport

A common summer site in the Rocky Mountain states.

Sky Aviation Boeing CH-46 Chinooks. Worland Airport

A collection of CH-46s in Worland Wyoming.  These belong to the fire fighting company, Sky Aviation.

Fire Fighting Aircraft, Natrona County International Airport

Fire Fighting Aircraft, Natrona County International Airport

 DC 10 Fire Bomber.

 Wyoming Air National Guard Blackhawk helicopters.

A collection of aircraft brought in to fight the Sheep Herder Hill fire on Casper Mountain.

Aircraft bone yard, Greybull Wyoming

More things you run into at the airport

Privateer, converted into a firebomber, in Greybull Wyoming, along with flying boxcar and the air liner version of the B29.

Back at the same airport, a couple of years later:

Former RCAF flying boxcar.

This is a Lockheed Electra, a classic aircraft that's associated with Amelia Earhart, as that's what she was flying on her tragic transglobe flight.

P2 Neptunes at Natrona County International Airport

P2 Neptunes at Natrona County International Airport

P2 Neptunes of Neptune Air, converted for air tankers, at the Natrona County International Airport.