"Savageduck" wrote in message
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There does seem to be some international distribution of the
Canadair/Bombardier line, Spain has 15, Greece had 4 CL-215s, but lost one
in the recent fires that they suffered. Minnesota has two. There may be
other internation sales which Bombardier may be able to provide
information on. It seems the CL-215 & CL-415 are versitile enough to
provide justification for purchase or charter beyond some of the single
purpose firefighting tankers.

Manitoba has at least 3 CL-215s.

In 2004 I was in the south of France and watched 13 CL-215s in close
formation, no doubt flying out to battle a big blaze. Several hours later
I saw them all returning in a pretty ragged formation.