With bombing number "475", one of a group deployed at the Fire Attack Base in La Ronge, Saskatchewan. Delivered new to the USAF in 1954 as C-131H Samaritan 54-2815.

Former Royal Canadian Navy 1598, this De Havilland Canada built tracker became 12198 in the Canadian Armed Forces in 1970. Sold to the Province of Saskatchewan in 1975 it was converted to a fire bomber. Tanker 501 was donated to the Saskatchewan Aviation Historical Society and is displayed at the Saskatchewan Aviation Museum in Saskatoon, SK.

Built by Canadian-Vickers. Ex RCAF 9815, CF-NJB, F-ZBAR, CF-NJB, F-ZBBC, CF-NJB. Registration cancelled 17 February 2004. Now with the rear blisters removed. Later preserved at the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum. McMinnville, Oregon.

Operated from new in 1965 until retirement in 1997

Stored at Nanaimo since the mid 1990s. Acquired by the Evergreen Aviation Museum on 31 July 2010 and restored to flying condition. Became N249SB and flown to McMinnville, OR on delivery to the museum on 6 August 2011. Placed on display by July 2012 in fictitious US Navy markings as BuNo 04982, even though it never flew with the US Navy. It is in fact ex RCAF 9815.

Lots of retired Firecats in the Conair boneyard. Most, if not all, of the aircraft had been cut up by 2018.

This Aero Commander replaced one of the Province's Piper Aerostar bird dogs in 2006.