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Local News - Local News - July 05, 2012
Aerial wildfire douser to nest at Spokane International Airport
Arizona-based Aero-Flite will establish operations at SIA

By Kim Crompton
Of the Journal of Business

Aero-Flite Inc. recently landed a contract to provide the U.S. Forest Service with jets converted for firefighting.
Aero-Flite Inc. recently landed a contract to provide the U.S. Forest Service with jets converted for firefighting.
—Photo courtesy of Con-Air Group Inc.
Aero-Flite Inc., a Kingman, Ariz.-based company that recently garnered a big contract to help provide the U.S. Forest Service with next-generation air tankers for wildfire suppression, plans to establish operations at Spokane International Airport.

The Spokane Airport Board in May approved Aero-Flite's assumption of a lease and operating agreement formerly held by JetTech Aerospace for most of an airport-owned, 70,000-square-foot maintenance, repair, and operations facility, former...


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