RFS LAT Arrives
 

The latest weapon in the RFS arsenal against the next fie season arrived at Richmond yesterday.

The new addition to the NSW RFS aerial firefighting fleet, named Marie Bashir, will be based at RAAF Base in Richmond and can operate from some regional airports. It will be able to reach all parts of NSW within an hour.

The aircraft N138CG arrived in the country last week

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/N138CG

https://www.facebook.com/7NEWSsydney...TgwNzU1MzkxNA/

RJ85 "Boomer" arrived at Richmond yesterday.

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/CGVFK

https://www.rfs.nsw.gov.au/news-and-...nsw-bush-fires

10 Tanker will have a DC10 VLAT arriving this weekend.

Sat or Sun?

She is just completing a test flight and will actually be here around 1Pm Friday

https://flightaware.com/live/flight/...851Z/NSTU/YSRI

There a Herc as well.

Not sure which one.

Made the news last night after hitting a northern suburb with red fire retardant.

N130FF arrived 8/11

thks Mark

In youtube - search "NSW bushfires spread to the Sydney suburb of Turramurra"

https://www.theguardian.com/australi...fire-emergency


Turramurra needs someone to clean fire retardant off a large number of solar panels

The NSW FRS were cleaning down today.

Delayed, new ETA of 5 AM Saturday