Thanks to the long Alaskan days, we were able to continue our photography until the very last moment. Aero-Flite's Tanker 267 gave us a wonderful opportunity at 10 pm, with the setting sun reflecting in its prop blades. It had just made a drop on the raging Parks Highway Fire and is passing low overhead, on its way to Minto Lake, to scoop up another load of water to drop on the rapidly-growing wildfire.

Ontario's Ministry Of Natural Resources based CL-215s in Thunder Bay for fire fighting. This one was delivered January 22, 1988 and was returned to Bombardier in December 1998 as they took delivery of CL-415s. Sold to the USA as N267V for operation by Aeroflite for their fire service contracts, the aircraft was bought by Cascade Aerospace in late 2015. Refurbished for the Province of Saskatchewan as C-FPKW, It was upgraded to a CL-215T in 2017.

Original piston-powered version of the CL-215 water-bomber, operated by Aero-Flite.