Coulson Aviation grows C-130H Hercules fleet

Coulson Aviation grows C-130H Hercules fleet

Coulson Aviation is expanding its C-130H Hercules fleet to ten aircraft for aerial firefighting, following the acquisition of four aircraft from the New Zealand Defence Force. The aircraft will be relocated to Coulson's base in Thermal, California, where they will undergo a full conversion and modernisation process. Each will be equipped with Coulson's proprietary RADS-XXL tank system—the world's highest-capacity, highest-flow-rate aerial firefi…

The New Zealand Ministry of Defense has completed the sale of the remaining four Lockheed Martin C-130H Hercules transport aircraft to Coulson Aviation in the United States, which will use them on a firefighting mission. The said aircraft, now disbanded and replaced in the ranks of the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF) by the new C-130J-30 Super Hercules, will now be prepared for flight and transported to the Coulson maintenance base in Califo…

In the framework of the expansion of its fleet of aircraft destined for the combat against forest fires, the Canadian company Coulson Aviation confirmed on 11 April the acquisition of the four transport aircraft Hercules C-130H recently decommissioned by the Royal Air Force of New Zealand (RNZAF), for an amount of 9 million New Zealand dollars. With this operation, the total fleet of Coulson will have ten aircraft dedicated to the fight against …