Conrad "Connie" Kalitta's air transport company is lending a hand to keep the air tankers battling the blazes.

A multitude of planes and helicopters are helping fight the Los Angeles area wildfires. Wildfires have been raging in the Los Angeles area for a week, with five fires currently active in Los ...

President-elect Donald Trump has named Troy Meink, a former Air Force KC-135 tanker navigator and former deputy of the ...

Photo: Tayfun Coskun/Anadolu/Getty Images Tanker 47 rears up as helicopter ... It’s not as big or as fast as VLATs (very large air tankers), which are converted DC-10’s and 747’s that ...

Air tankers are dropping thousands of gallons of red flame retardant in the hills around Los Angeles as firefighters attempt to limit the devastation from multiple wildfires. Images of vivid red ...

Extended lease duration at Witham Field will enable additional enhancements and business growth at the Daher site.

After a series of suspected undersea cable cuttings, NATO has launched a new surveillance and deterrence mission to protect ...

This is a developing story. For the latest local updates, head to LAist.com. Also, sign up for NPR's breaking news alerts. Air tankers are dropping thousands of gallons of red flame retardant in ...

LOS ANGELES - Above the roaring fires devastating parts of Los Angeles is an incongruous sight: air tankers dropping gallons ... Dr McCurry said he has seen photos “where a brush fire burned ...

Two weeks into the new year, and four weeks after the oil spill, Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged the extent of the disaster and dispatched senior officials to deal with Russia’s largest ...