Running back to the sea to pick up more water to fight an outbreak of fire in the hills near Split. Summer 2007 was a very bad season for fires on the Croatian coast. This was the first of six CL-415s supplied to Croatia, in 1997; the most recent arrived in early 2010. Initially civil-registered, they were transferred to the Air Force in 2002 and are based at Zadar. Three of the older piston-engined CL-215s were used until replaced by the turboprops in 2004