I forgot about it until the other day when it landed with a blown hydraulic transfer valve and spilling skydrol all over the place.
But Evergreen has a modified 747-200 nose loader, that was converted into a Supertanker for putting out fires, granted no one has hired them to put out the fire in Cali yet, go figure.
N470EV with 947 written in red on the tail:
http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.s ... ersion=6.0
And the DC-10 that was used once this week, with great success, but hit a few tree tops on the pull up:
http://www.fire.ca.gov/newsreleases_con ... tsheet.pdf
http://www.airliners.net/search/photo.s ... ersion=6.0