Production Milestones

Design of Snow S-1

Snow Aeronautical Company moves to Olney from Harlingen, Texas; starts with six employees
First plane (S-2B) completed and flight tested
FAA certification received
Ground broken for new plant

Company moves into new facility
First three planes leave the factory
First production S-2B flown

First delivery to a foreign country (Panama)

S-2C test flown
100th plane delivered, to Mississippi operator

First flight of the S-2D prototype

Company moves into new office building and expanded plant facilities

Production increased to one plane every three working days
S-2D certification completed
Snow Aeronautical acquired by Rockwell-Standard

First S-2R test flown

Rockwell moves ag plane production to Albany, GA

Leland Snow returns to Olney and begins construction of the first Air Tractor

AT-300 test flown

AT-301 test flown

Twenty Air Tractors delivered
24 employees move into new plant

AT-302 test flown

AT-400 is test flown, the first Pratt & Whitney PT-6-powered Air Tractor aircraft

AT-250 test flown

AT-500 test flown

AT-503 test flown
AT-401 test flown

AT-501 test flown
AT-502 test flown

AT-402 test flown

AT-802, world’s largest ag plane, is test flown

AT-502A test flown

1,100th Air Tractor delivered

AT-602 test flown

Ground breaking for new 55,000 sq. ft. facility in Olney, TX
1,400th Air Tractor rolls off assembly line
AT-402A test flown

2,000th Snow-designed, Olney-built aircraft delivered
AT-401B certified for 7,000 pounds gross weight
Opened plant #2: 57,000 sq. ft. of additional space
110 aircraft manufactured in 1997

Celebration of 40 years in Olney, Texas
1,700th Air Tractor rolls off assembly line
Dropped boom introduced for all models

1,800th Air Tractor, an AT-502B, is delivered to Longwood Flying Service, Mississippi
First AT-602 delivered in Canada

First of eight AT-802 aircraft purchased by U.S. State Department for South American coca crop eradication
Air Tractor honored by US Department of Commerce for Export Achievement

First float-equipped AT-802F "Fire Boss" aircraft go to work in Spain and Canada

2,000th Air Tractor, an AT-502B, is delivered to Blackstone Aerial Spraying, Nebraska

200th AT-802 delivered to Conair Group, Inc., British Columbia
Air Tractor receives International Torch Award for Marketplace Ethics from Council of Better Business Bureaus

US Department of State takes delivery of 15th AT-802 for use in narcotic crop eradication in Colombia

Croatia Ministry of Defense takes delivery of three Fire Boss aircraft
Four AT-402B’s delivered to XGAC in China
AT-504 two-seat trainer/spray aircraft introduced
AMSAFE cockpit airbag system is introduced as standard equipment in all Air Tractor aircraft
300th AT-802 delivered to Dunn Aviation, Western Australia
50-year anniversary, Leland Snow establishes Snow Aviation in Olney, Texas

AT-1002A makes first test flight
AT-802U gunship makes first test flight and debut at Paris Air Show
FRDS Generation II fire gate introduced
Opened Plant #2A for an additional 57,000 s.f. of manufacturing space

2,500th Air Tractor, an AT-402B, delivered to Diego Preuss in Cachoeira do Sul, Brazil

Leland Snow passes away
Jim Hirsch named President of Air Tractor
400th AT-802 delivered to Jeff Dungan, Connersville Indiana

2,800th Air Tractor, an AT-502B, delivered to AWAER Aviação Agrícola Ltda. in Campo Verde, Brazil.

AT-802 number 500 is delivered to its new owner, Drew Spidahl of Ag-Tech Air LLC, of Lena Illinois.