The Los Angeles County Fire Department (LACFD) Air Operations operates 10 aircraft - 5 Sikorsky S-70 Firehawks (three S-70A and two S-70i) and 5 Bell 412s (three 412EPs and two 412HPs) - for paramedic transport, hoist rescues and wildland firefighting. Based at Barton Heliport at Whiteman Airport, each morning, a minimum of three regional air squads are operational including deployments to the North (Fire Station 129 Lancaster), East (Brackett Field) and, in fire season, to the West (Fire Camp 8 in Malibu). It received two S-70As in 2001, one in 2005 and two S-70i's in 2020, including N821LA.

Photographer: Al Rodriguez. K25 slide scan. Delivered 1968 as N3328L to Delta. Ozark N921L 1978, merged into TWA 1986. Withdrawn Victorville, CA 2001, subsequently scrapped.

Reregistered ZK-SOW in December 2003. Bob Kerr photo

Once with TEAL as ZK-BGC and the RNZAF as NZ3633

This is N9994Z, falsely painted as N9995Z.

Painted as N9995Z, but is actually ex N9994Z.

Delivered to British Commonwealth Pacific Airways as VH-BPH in 1948. To Tasman Empire Airways as ZK-BFC in 1954. Reregistered as ZK-BGC in 1956. To the Royal New Zealand Air Force as NZ3633 in 1961. Sold as N255N in 1964. To Pacific Western Airlines as CF-PWQ in 1965 then to Mercer Airlines as N90MA in 1971. To Aerial Applicators in 1972 and converted to a fire bomber. To Sis-Q in 1981, Macavia in 1975 then T & G Aviation in 1991 but remained in Macavia colours. Scrapped by 2006. Nose to Finland for use as a simulator.

Registered in July 2011.

Photo printed in Madrid and taken there according to the original caption, likely at Barajas. Aircraft delivered through Fokker with Fokker 'line number' 8. Militarized after outbreak of Civil War, then to EC-AAD. Crashed in August 1940.

This aircraft is one of only two Guardians converted to air tanker (note the under-belly droptank). It is the real N9995Z, contrary to the AF-2S at the Pima museum painted with the same registration, which is actually N9994Z.

Built in 1929 as a Vega 2. To Canadian-American Airlines for use on Minneapolis to Winnipeg route. Sold to Hanford Tri-State Airline in 1931, which became Hanford Airlines in 1936 and Mid-Continent Airlines in 1938. Air mail route 26 was Kansas City to Minneapolis. The Vega ended up with Lineas Aereas Mineras, registered XA-DEC. Last seen derelict on a beach near Ensenada, Mexico in the late 1940s.

Operating on behalf of Bombers as 21

The aircraft is actually N9994Z ex US Navy 129233. It has been restored and preserved at Pima in the markings of N9995Z, c/n 296, an air tanker operated by Aero Union.

Used for spares

Originally US Navy bu 91171, this Avenger was one of several acquired by the US Forest Service in 1956 - 57 to develop fire fighting tankers. Initially registered N107Z, the aircraft was with Aerial Applicators during 1966 - 72 as N7858C . Brought to Canada as CF-BQT by Hicks & Lawrence from 1972 - 76, the aircraft is pictured while owned by Ag Air. In December 2017 it was acquired by the Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum and is undergoing restoration to represent the VT-51 Avenger flown by US President George H.W. Bush.