Erickson Air-Crane selling S-64 to Italians
Erickson Air-Crane will hand over a “new” S-64 Helitanker to Italy’s Corpo Forestale dello Stato (state forestry corps, or CFS) this morning at Booth No.

Erickson Air-Crane will hand over a “new” S-64 Helitanker to Italy’s Corpo Forestale dello Stato (state forestry corps, or CFS) this morning at Booth No. 2829. The aircraft is the second of four for the CFS to be upgraded by the Central Point, Ore. company, which has owned the helicopter’s type certificate since 1992.

Such has become its popularity over the past few years as an aerial firefighter–in Oceania as well as Europe and the U.S.–that Erickson is fast running out of aircraft to modify and is currently reconfiguring its premises so that it can start building new ones.