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Meet Jeremy Garden, our Director of Maintenance

Meet Jeremy Garden, 10 Tanker’s Director of Maintenance since last season. He has been working with our team for five years and shown...

Meet Lead Mechanic Neil Bigthumb

Meet Neil Bigthumb, the lead mechanic for Tanker 912. Neil’s career began in the Navy as an Aviation Structural Mechanic. He served for...

Meet the Lead Mechanic of Tanker 912

Meet Marvin Hollivay, the lead mechanic for Tanker 912. Marv graduated from Central New Mexico Community College in Aviation and...

Brad Tuttle and the Inception of 10 Tanker

Brad Tuttle began work in the aviation industry in 1983. As a civil engineer college student, he decided to switch career paths and...

Business Insider Article

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Meet Flight Engineer: Gage Lowery

To operate the DC-10, it requires three trained individuals: two pilots and one flight engineer. Meet Gage Lowery, a flight engineer for...

10 Tanker Operations- June 2021

Since early June, 10 Tanker has been called to respond to several major fires throughout the United States: Southwest: #TelegraphFire:...

Operation Coahuila

10 Tanker’s first mission of the season is located outside of Monterrey, Mexico. The fire originated in the Coahuila Province of Mexico...

A highlight on 10 Tanker's Captain RK Smithley

RK’s first job fresh out of high school was in 1977, when he joined an airline ground school in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Teaching all...

Leading 10 Tanker

Often overlooked fact; the world of aerial firefighting can be quite competitive. From bidding for contracts to crew performance,...

A Brief Reflection

“We delight in the beauty of the butterfly but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty” - Maya Angelou 2017...