Air Tractor AT-802
| Air Tractor AT-802 | |
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| Type: | Agricultural and fire fighting aircraft |
| Design country: | |
| Manufacturer: |
Air tractor |
| First flight: |
October 30, 1990 |
| Commissioning: |
1993 |
| Production time: |
1993 |
| Number of pieces: |
> 200 |
The Air Tractor AT-802 is a single-engine agricultural and fire-fighting aircraft from the US manufacturer Air Tractor . Armed variants are used to counter insurgency in various conflicts.
history
The development of the Air Tractor AT-802 began in July 1989. The first flight of the first prototype (N802LS) took place on October 30, 1990. The first AT-802A had its first flight on July 6, 1992. The AT-802A was approved by the FAA in March; the AT-802 was approved in April 1993 and the AT-802F on December 17, 1992. The first production aircraft were delivered in the second half of 1993 and had even weaker Pratt & Whitney - PT6A-45R -Triebwerke. It is built as a two-seat AT-802 and a single-seat AT-802A for agricultural use, as well as an AT-802F or AT-802AF Fire Boss as a fire-fighting aircraft with a water capacity of 3000 liters and floats . In total, more than 200 AT-802s had been built up to 2005 and delivered to the USA, Australia , Canada and various European countries.
The military version Air Tractor AT-802U for COIN missions ( fight against partisans, gangs and terrorists) was built in 2007 and first presented in 2009 at the Paris Le Bourget 2009 air show . It is armored, has an imaging reconnaissance and targeting system with the possibility of data transmission and can be equipped with bombs, 12.7 mm machine guns, missile containers and guided weapons. With additional tanks, it can fly for up to ten hours.
construction
The Air Tractor AT-802 is a very large for this purpose low-wing aircraft provided by turboprop a five-blade propeller Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A and Hartzell HC-B5MP is driven. The three-wheeled landing gear is not retractable.
use
After the big fires in December 2010 with 41 dead in the Carmel Mountains , the Israeli government temporarily put seven planes from Spain into service as fire-fighting planes.
An early armed version of the Air Tractor AT-802 Archangel was used in the civil war in Libya and Yemen by the armed forces of the United Arab Emirates , which it had procured for border patrols. UAE planes also reached Jordan.
Technical specifications
| Parameter | AT-802 |
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| crew | 1 |
| length | 10.87 m |
| span | 18.06 m |
| height | 3.35 m |
| Wing area | 37.29 m² |
| Wing extension | 8.7 |
| Max. payload | 4360 kg |
| Empty mass | 2900 kg |
| Max. Takeoff mass | 7260 kg |
| Max. Cruising speed | 340 km / h |
| Top speed | 340 km / h |
| Service ceiling | 8234 m |
| Range | 800 km |
| Engines | a P&W PT6A-65AG with 966 kW (AT-802A) a P&W PT6A-67AG (AT-802F) a P&W PT6A-67R with 1060 kW (AT-802U) |
| optional armament |
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See also
Web links
- Manufacturer website
- Evaluation of Long Term Retardant Drop Patterns from Air Tractor 802 Amphibious Float and Wheel Equipped Aircraft ( Memento from October 5, 2011 in the Internet Archive )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Air_Tractor_AT-802 (Scramble) ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ 200th Air Tractor AT-802 Aircraft Delivered To Canada's Conair Group, Inc. for Aerial Firefighting ( Memento of December 8, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ a b FliegerRevue April 2010, pp. 24–27, The return of the COIN aircraft
- ↑ FlugRevue June 2011, p. 15, Air Tractor for Israel
- ↑ Tyler Rogoway: UAE's Armed Air Tractors And Chinese Drones Operate From This Shadowy Libyan base . In: The Drive . ( thedrive.com [accessed October 28, 2016]).
- ↑ UAE AT-802 light strike turboprops flying out of Saudi airbase | IHS Jane's 360. In: janes.com. Retrieved October 28, 2016 .
- ↑ UAE Taking Delivery of Archangel COIN Aircraft , aviationweek, November 8, 2015
- ↑ Kenya to field Air Tractor light attack turboprops , IHS Jane's, January 24, 2017
