Aerial firefighting Total Turkish aerial firefighting fleet consist of 27 aircraft, 101 helicopters and 10 unmanned aerial vehicles which are used by Ministry of Forest and Agriculture, General Directorate of Forest, Turkish Aeronautical Association, Ministry of National Defence and Ministry of Interior and Turkish Armed Forces. The list below consist only known aircraft, helicopters and uavs which are mentioned officially to be used by General Directorate of Forest, Ministry of Forest and Agriculture and Turkish Aeronautical Association and its in inventory. +AircraftImageOriginRoleTypeQuantityDetailsFirefighting aircraftCL-215 BombardierFirefightingAmphibious aircraft8Used by Turkish Aeronautical Association. 3 are operational. Rest are non-airworthy condition. All planned to be modernized.Beriev Be-200FirefightingAmphibious aircraft3Used by Turkish Aeronautical Association. Leased from Russia.M-18 DromaderFirefightingUtility aircraft11+2Used by Turkish Aeronautical Association. 11 aircraft are non-airworthy condition. Required maintenance. Additional 2 aircraft was leased from Poland.Air Tractor AT-802FirefightingAmphibious aircraft12Used by General Directorate of Forest. On order.Antonov An-32PFirefightingAmphibious aircraft1 Leased from Ukraine. Beechcraft Super King AirReconnaissanceReconnaissance aircraft1350ER variant in use. Used by General Directorate of Forest.Cessna Citation VTransport/ReconnaissanceTransport aircraft11Used by General Directorate of Forest.Cessna Citation IIITransport/ReconnaissanceTransport aircraft1650 variant in use.Firefighting helicopterBoeing CH-47D Chinook FirefightingHeavy transport helicopter12Used by Turkish Aeronautical Association and General Directorate of Forest. Leased from USA.Sikorsky S-64 SkycraneFirefightingHeavy transport helicopterN/ALeased from USA Mil Mi-26FirefightingHeavy transport helicopterN/ALeased from Russia.Kamov Ka-32FirefightingUtility helicopter3Used by General Directorate of Forest. Leased from Russia.Mil Mi-8FirefightingUtility helicopter40 Used by Turkish Aeronautical Association. Leased from Russia.Sikorsky/TAI T-70FirefightingUtility helicopter3Used by General Directorate of Forest. Licensed built by TAI.Bell 429 GlobalRangerFirefightingMultipurpose utility helicopter5Used by General Directorate of Forest.TAI T925FirefightingUtility helicopter10 ton class utility helicopter. 8 on order.Unmanned aerial vehiclesBayraktar TB2Reconnaissance/SurvellianceUAVUnknownUsed by Ministry of Forest and Agriculture.TAI AnkaReconnaissance/SurvellianceUAVUnknownUsed by Turkish Armed Forces.TAI AksungurReconnaissance/SurvellianceUAVUnknownUsed by General Directorate of Forest.Alpin-Reconnaissance/SurvellianceRotorcraft/VTOL UAVUnknownUsed by Ministry of Forest and Agriculture.
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