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AerialPerspective
And if that is viable then why not the government purchasing say, 3 of the soon to be retired Qantas 747-438ERs and doing the same in reverse. Operating/owning them here and leasing them out to California and others during our Winter??? The long range of the aircraft would certainly provide no problems carrying firefighters as well between Australia and the US and v.v.
There’s probably much better airframes sitting in the desert than clapped out QF airframes.
Also to fly them in the USA on any forestry contract or anything dept. of state, the aircraft can’t have any local EO’s they all have to be standard with STC’s.
That’s why you see a lot of N reg helicopters in Australia but not the other way.