A Czechoslovakian-made agricultural plane toting Soviet-era heat-seeking missiles is Ukraine’s latest drone-killer.

The Zlin Z-137 Agro Turbo agricultural aircraft equipped with R-73 IR-guided air-to-air missiles might be used as a drone hunter. A short video ...

One of the trademarks of summer is the sight of planes and helicopters making gravity-defying turns as they make passes up ...

Embraer employees celebrate delivery of the 1,600th Ipanema. [Courtesy: Embraer] Embraer marked the delivery of its 1,600th Ipanema agricultural aircraft, which punctuated a period of rising sales.

The ag aviation industry is urging drone operators to operate with caution and to give the right-of-way to manned agricultural aircraft during this growing season. Each year, agricultural aviators ...

Pyka manufactures and distributes Pelican Spray, a high-capacity, autonomous electric crop protection application aircraft. Heinen Brothers says it will immediately begin integrating Pelican Spray ...

Challenges Danger: It’s a given in ag flying. It’s something that has to be at the top of everyone’s mind all the time while operating the aircraft. Complacency kills.

According to a recent MarketsandMarkets report, the agricultural drone market size is predicted to grow at a CAGR of 31.5% between 2023 and 2028, reaching a value of $17.9 billion by 2028 from a ...

Replacing one agricultural aircraft with an autonomous Pelican crop duster is roughly equivalent to removing 100 internal combustion cars from service, Norcia estimates.

The Transland AG-2 in action circa 1959. Location unknown. (Photo courtesy of The Development of Agricultural Aviation and the Transland AG-2 Airplane, Transland Aircraft, 1959 publication) ...

On the cover of the Feb, 5, 1985 issue is the Predator agricultural aircraft, which was developed for Advanced Technology Aircraft Co. in Hanford, California, by Scaled Composites in Mojave ...

One of the key operators here is FlyCoop, a company that started with agricultural aircraft services in the 1990s and has since grown into a full-service aviation firm.