Discover the remarkable evolution of the Air Tractor AT-802, an agricultural aircraft that began life spraying crops and fighting wildfires before being transformed into the heavily armed AT-802U Sky ...

Modern agricultural aviation, performed by specialized ag pilots, is crucial for crop yield and pest control, leveraging advanced aircraft and contributing over $37 billion annually to the U.S.

WASHINGTON -- The FBI has questioned more than 3,000 pilots and aircraft owners, most of them in the past year, amid persistent concerns that terrorists might use crop-dusting planes to mount a ...

The US Air Force plane that crashed into a field in Oklahoma late Thursday afternoon was a new special operations light attack aircraft that the service first received earlier this year. The new OA-1K ...

Rotor Technologies is working through regulatory approval of a remotely piloted helicopter based on Robinson Helicopter’s R44, with hopes of tapping into the aerial crop-dusting market. Unmanned ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An Air National Guard base in Oklahoma will host the first formal training unit for the service's armed recon crop duster plane ...

Amid renewed fears that terrorists might wage chemical attacks, authorities grounded crop-dusting planes for a second day yesterday -- causing concerns among California farmers who could lose millions ...

Deliveries of the Pyka Pelican 2 UAV to Brazil are to begin in August 2025. Credit: Pyka Pyka has won a firm order for 60 autonomous crop duster aircraft to be sold to a Brazilian distributor. The ...

The pilot of a crop duster aircraft appears to have survived without serious injury after a crash on Monday in northeast ...

PARKERSBURG -- An ambulance carrying a person who had been sprayed by a crop duster aircraft was sprayed with more chemicals on its way to the hospital. Grundy County Sheriff Rick Penning says the ...

Crop dusting planes are a key tool for keeping banana plantations free from pests, but the practice causes significant environmental and climate damage. A small but growing number of plantations are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A US Air Force special ops plane converted from a crop duster crashed in Oklahoma yesterday. No injuries were reported amongst the ...