The U.S. Forest Service has contracted to use it again this year. The aircraft is stationed at McClellan Air Force Base outside Sacramento, and the Forest Service is just waiting on a software upgrade ...

Built to carry hundreds of passengers across oceans, the Boeing 747 found an extraordinary second life battling some of the world's largest wildfires. Converted into the 747 Supertanker, the jumbo jet ...

I don’t know about you, but this makes me nervous: US government agencies are now looking at the possibility of using the impressive Boeing 747-100 Supertanker for dirty radioactive and biological ...

Global SuperTanker Service's Boeing 747-400 has been activated to fight a California wildfire, marking its first use in the United States. The company says the California Department of Forestry and ...

Bolivia just got a huge helping hand in the fight to keep raging fires in the Amazon rainforest at bay. Colorado-based Global SuperTanker sent its Boeing 747-400 firefighting plane to the South ...

FILE - In this July 30, 2010, file photo, a Boeing Evergreen B-747 Supertanker drops fire retardant over a hillside subdivision on the outskirts of Palmdale, Calif. A report released Friday, Sept. 14, ...

A Colorado-based Boeing 747-400 supertanker has been deployed to California to help fight wildfires that have destroyed dozens of buildings and caused at least one death. Scott McLean is deputy chief ...

As wildfires rage across California, beleaguered fire officials are calling for reinforcements. After a lengthy delay, a modified 747 airplane is expected to be deployed this weekend to assist with ...