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Conair Firecat

The Conair Firecat is a fire-fighting aircraft developed in Canada in the 1970s by modifying military surplus Grumman S-2 Trackers. The modifications were developed by the maintenance arm of the Conair Group, which became a separate company called Cascade Aerospace.

Development
The Firecats are retrofitted Grumman S-2 Trackers. Conair bought a large number of Trackers formerly operated by the Canadian Navy and a small number of ex-United States Navy aircraft as well. ==Operational history==
Operational history
Conair commenced Firecat operations in 1978. Firecats and Turbo Firecats were previously in service with Conair and the Government of Saskatchewan in Canada and were also used by the Government of Ontario. The Sécurité Civile organisation in France took delivery of 14 Firecats over a period of five years commencing in May 1982. A total of 35 Firecat and Turbo Firecat conversions have been performed; four Firecats and three Turbo Firecats have crashed in France. In 2020 Turbo Firecats were retired for Sécurité Civile in France. Similar conversions are performed by another company Marsh Aviation in the United States. These are known as Marsh Turbo Trackers and feature Garrett AiResearch TPE-331 turboprop engines. ==Variants==
Variants
;Firecat: Original version, fitted with Wright R-1820 radial piston engines as fitted to standard Grumman Trackers ;Turbo Firecat: Version fitted with two Pratt & Whitney Canada PT6A-67AF turboprop engines File:Entrée cockpit Tracker 07 Conair S-2FT F-ZBEY.jpg|Turbo Firecat cockpit. File:PT6 turbine side S-2FT Tracker 07.jpg|PT6 on Turbo Firecat. File:Montage coquille pale sur PT6 - S-2FT Tracker 07.jpg|Propeller assembly. ==Aircraft on display==
Aircraft on display
==Specifications (Turbo Firecat) ==
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