USFS/ NPS Southern Appalachian Air Attack Base, 27Nov16
Sunday November 27th, 2016
Civilian firefighting aircraft sit alert at the joint US Department of Agriculture - Forest Service/ US Department of the Interior - National Park Service "Southern Appalachian Air Attack Base" on the Lovell Field Airport (KCHA) in Chattanooga Tennessee on Sunday November 27th 2016. Aircraft assigned to the effort include a former US Navy 1980 EC-130Q "TACAMO Hercules" (N130FF, CN 161495) operated by Coulson Aviation USA based in Reno Nevada, two 1996 British Aerospace Avro 146-RJ85A (N355AC, N366AC) tankers operated by Aero-Flite Aerial Firefighting based in Spokane Washington, and two Beechcraft "King Air" lead/ command-and-control planes. Dozens of forest fires have raged across drought-stricken eastern Tennessee, northern Georgia, and western North Carolina since early October and over seventy percent are believed to be the result of arson.
Read MoreCivilian firefighting aircraft sit alert at the joint US Department of Agriculture - Forest Service/ US Department of the Interior - National Park Service "Southern Appalachian Air Attack Base" on the Lovell Field Airport (KCHA) in Chattanooga Tennessee on Sunday November 27th 2016. Aircraft assigned to the effort include a former US Navy 1980 EC-130Q "TACAMO Hercules" (N130FF, CN 161495) operated by Coulson Aviation USA based in Reno Nevada, two 1996 British Aerospace Avro 146-RJ85A (N355AC, N366AC) tankers operated by Aero-Flite Aerial Firefighting based in Spokane Washington, and two Beechcraft "King Air" lead/ command-and-control planes. Dozens of forest fires have raged across drought-stricken eastern Tennessee, northern Georgia, and western North Carolina since early October and over seventy percent are believed to be the result of arson.
