:: Did You Know?

• ESRI used a map created by Forest Protection Limited in their 2003 corporate calendar. The map was also featured in their Online Map Gallery.
• In 1953, Forest Protection Limited completed 8,000 aircraft sorties in a single 35 day operation.
• The first water bombing experiment for forest fire fighting in New Brunswick were conducted by Forest Protection Limited in 1961.
• In 1978, Forest Protection Limited established the B.W. Flieger Memorial Prize, 2 prizes of $1,250 awarded annually to a student in the Faculty of Forestry and Environmental Management at the University of New Brunswick.
• In 1993, GPS aerial guidance became the first major change in aerial navigation since the “aerial flagging” system developed by Forest Protection Limited in 1961. This same year, Forest Protection Limited promoted real time GPS guidance for spray aircraft.
• FPL's legal name is Forest Protection Limited, not Forest Protection Ltd.
• Former US President George H. W. Bush personally autographed one of Forest Protection Limited’s Avenger aircraft. The aircraft was similar to the one he was shot down in during WWII.
• You can own your very own vintage TBM Avenger …in almost mint condition.
• Forest Protection Limited is not a Crown Corportation.
• In 1999, Forest Protection Limited leased an AIMMS-10 real time weather system which it used for research work in Ontario and New Brunswick.
• As far as we have been able to research, the H.J. Irving - J.J.C. Picot
  Wind Tunnel is one of only three or four in the entire world designed to analyze pesticide droplets in an airstream of over 240 km/hr (150 mph).
• In 2001, New Brunswick exported two and a half billion dollars worth of forestry products. The industry employed over 18,000 people and paid over 620 million dollars in salaries. (source)
• In the past few years our average time from take-off to fire has been 21 minutes.
• The Canadian Forest Service frequently contracts our aircraft for scientific research trials.