{"id":3294,"date":"2020-11-19T13:49:25","date_gmt":"2020-11-19T13:49:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/salinareport.com\/?p=3294"},"modified":"2020-12-16T13:50:07","modified_gmt":"2020-12-16T13:50:07","slug":"tanker-60-retires-from-aerial-firefighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salinareport.com\/?p=3294","title":{"rendered":"Tanker 60 retires from aerial firefighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Air Tanker 60, a DC-7B (N838D), completed its last season as an aerial firefighting machine. On October 14 it departed from Medford, Oregon when the contract with the state of Oregon ended. Tim Crippen, who took these photos as it left, said it gave a wing wave to the tanker base as it passed by en route to Madras, Oregon.<\/p>\n<p>The aircraft, serial number 45347, was manufactured in 1958. It is powered by four 18-cylinder Wright TC18EA radial engines, each weighing 3,700 pounds with a displacement of 3,350 cubic inches. A lot of people will miss the sound of those huge engines over a fire.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week Air Tanker 60, a DC-7B (N838D), completed its last season as an aerial firefighting machine. On October 14 it departed from Medford, Oregon when the contract with the state of Oregon ended. Tim Crippen, who took these photos as it left, said it gave a wing wave to the tanker base as it passed by en route to Madras, Oregon. The aircraft, serial number 45347, was manufactured in 1958. It is powered by four 18-cylinder Wright TC18EA radial engines, each weighing 3,700 pounds with a displacement of 3,350 cubic inches. 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