Fire Boss Unveils Major Upgrades

Lighter, more efficient air tanker features redesigned floats and improved maintenance for critical missions.

Meg Godlewski

Thursday, August 07, 2025 at 10:00 AM ET

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Travis Tingle

A Fire Boss aircraft scooping while fighting brush fires in Australia. [Courtesy: Fire Boss]

Key Takeaways:

Fire Boss has announced a series of STC'd improvements for its air attack tanker, aimed at enhancing mission-critical performance, safety, and maintenance efficiency.
Key upgrades include a lighter, single-piece nose fork, a relocated hydraulic pump to improve aircraft center of gravity and weight balance, and a new scoop lockout gate for operational safety.
Additional enhancements feature redesigned internal float compartments, a switch to environmentally friendly steel ballast, replaceable access cover seals, and STC approval for a lithium-ion aircraft battery.
All announced improvements are available for new aircraft and as retrofits for existing Fire Boss models.

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Fire Boss, part of the Wipaire family of brands, announced a series of STC’d improvements to its air attack tanker.

According to the company, there have been several changes, including a redesign of the internal float compartments and a single-piece nose fork that decreases weight and improves maintenance efficiency, along with the STC for the True Blue Power TB60 lithium-ion aircraft battery.