- Author
- Forest Service
- Title
- Interagency Airtanker Board - Charter, Criteria, Forms.
- Coporate
- Forest Service, San Dimas, CA
- Report
- Report 9157 1806, November 1991, 40 p.
- Keywords
- air tankers
- Identifiers
- helitankers
- Abstract
- The purpose of the Interagency Airtanker Board, hereafter referred to as the Board, is to promote the safety, effectiveness, and efficiency of airtankers and Helitankers. An airtanker is defined as an aerial delivery system that is an aircraft configured for the dispensing of fire retardant or fire suppressant material. Airtanker Board criteria shall apply to fixed-wing aircraft with a maximum capacity of 600 gallons or more and helicopters with a maximum capacity of 400 gallons or more.