No injuries were reported amongst the crew, which included an Air Force active duty personnel and a civilian. The OA-1K Skyraider II is an armed ISR aircraft with close-air support and strike ...

The U.S. Air Force's OA-1K Skyraider II is often described as a "crop duster on steroids." Built on the rugged Air Tractor AT-802U platform, the heavily modified prop-driven aircraft was designed for ...

The Air Force’s newest aircraft, a crop-duster style plane modified to perform armed overwatch and intelligence gathering for special operators, will be known as the Skyraider II, the service’s ...

Deliveries of the Pyka Pelican 2 UAV to Brazil are to begin in August 2025. Credit: Pyka Pyka has won a firm order for 60 autonomous crop duster aircraft to be sold to a Brazilian distributor. The ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The FBI has questioned more than 3,000 pilots and aircraft owners, most of them in the past year, amid persistent concerns that terrorists might use crop-dusting planes to mount a ...

The US Air Force plane that crashed into a field in Oklahoma late Thursday afternoon was a new special operations light attack aircraft that the service first received earlier this year. The new OA-1K ...