31/08/2026
10 hours. 66 loads. 193,605 litres prepared. One objective: supporting the firefighting efforts. 🔥✈️
Saturday, August 22 was an especially demanding operational day at Titan Firefighting, with continuous activity to support the aerial response to the wildfire affecting the area.
From 09:54 to 20:09, the aerodrome maintained an almost uninterrupted sequence of landings, loading operations and departures.
The figures reflect the intensity of the operation:
✈️ 20 different aircraft
🔄 94 operational movements
🛩️ 66 fixed-wing aircraft loads
🚁 28 helicopter movements
⏱️ 10.5 minutes average fixed-wing loading and dispatch time
✈️ 14.8 minutes average flight time to the fire, drop and return
🔁 24.6 minutes average cycle between loaded fixed-wing departures
🔥 14 aircraft loaded and dispatched between 15:00 and 15:59 alone
Throughout the day, the teams prepared:
💧 174,105 litres of water
🟥 19,500 litres of retardant
📊 193,605 litres of total mixture
This represents an average mobilization capacity of approximately 19,300 litres per hour sustained over ten hours of operation.
But behind every one of these figures are people: pilots, loading crews, technicians, coordinators, firefighters and emergency services working together under particularly demanding conditions.
For Titan Firefighting, this operation demonstrates something fundamental in aerial firefighting: having aircraft available is essential, but having the infrastructure, personnel and operational capacity required to keep them flying continuously is what turns those resources into an effective response.
Titan was operational when it was needed most.