Our Equipment...

Aircraft

Western Aerial Applications currently owns and operates:

• 4 Hiller/Soloy 12ETs
• 4 Hiller 12Es
• 2 Aerospatiale 315B Lamas
• 2 AirBus AS350 B3e A-Stars
• 1 Bell 212 BLR
• 1 Bell 206B
• 1 Cessna 180 fixed-wing (for crew / support logistics).

Both the Hiller and Lama are specialized helicopters which are ideally suited for aerial application type work and have proven themselves over many years in forestry and agricultural work.

Specialty Equipment

We design and manufacture all of our specialty equipment in-house – both airborne and ground-based. Since Aerial Application is our only business, we can focus our efforts on developing the most advanced and efficient equipment for our industry.

Drawing on our company's years of field experience, while utilizing the latest 3D solid modeling CAD software, our Engineering Department can design and prototype innovative ideas in very short time frames.

This ability allows us to better serve our customers with a 'Never-Compromise' position on using the best equipment for the job

GPS Technology

Since we are such a focused business we need to be at the forefront of our industry's development; researching new ideas and technologies. It was this drive that led to our partnership with Trimble Navigation, working closely with their engineers to help develop the TrimFlight II and TrimFlight III GPS Guidance Systems.

Each of our helicopters is now equipped with a state-of-the-art TracMap Flight-3 GPS Guidance System with custom software. This system offers our pilots real-time DGPS Parallel Swath Guidance, Application Recording and a Moving Map Display with Background Image Layering.