Conair Firecat

what is it?

The Conair Firecat is a fire-fighting aircraft developed in Canada in the 1970s by modifying military surplus Grumman S-2 Trackers. The modifications were developed by the maintenance arm of the Conair Group, which became a separate company called Cascade Aerospace.

🔎How to recognise it: 2 engines · 22.1 m wingspan

base stats

• speed 407 km/htop speed
• size 12.5 tmax take-off weight
• built 35made in total

Bars compare against all aircraft: 3,500 km/h, 20,000 km, 850 seats; size and number built on a log scale up to 640 t (An-225) and 45,000 built (Cessna 172).

fun facts

• 🏎️Top speed is 3.1× a car on the Dutch motorway (130 km/h).
• 🚗Wingspan of 22.1 m: about 5 cars parked nose to tail.
• 🐘Fully loaded it can weigh as much as 2 African elephants (~6 t each).

spec sheet

first flight

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introduced

1978

retired

2012

status

retired

number built

35

role

fire-fighting aircraft

origin

🇨🇦 Canada

makers

Conair Group

engines

2× Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-67AF

crew

1

length

13.3 m

wingspan

22.1 m

height

5.1 m

max take-off weight

12.5 t

top speed

407 km/h

range

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Specs are for the version in the Wikipedia article's specification section. Blank means the sources don't say.

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