Air Tractor, the world’s largest agplane manufacturer, will deliver a new passenger airplane known as the Snow S-22 Surveyor to the U.S. Department of Interior Office of Aircraft Services (OAS) sometime during the summer in 2004. The OAS has contracted to buy the first model with the potential for an additional 15 aircraft.
According to Leland Snow, President of Air Tractor based in Olney, Texas, the S-22 is PT-6 powered, is high wing and has amphibious floats; it can carry l O people. Pressed for more information, Snow indicated that the aircraft is designed specifically for exceptional visibility and has a high cruising speed. What will it look like? How fast or how far will it go? What is its projected price? No more information is forthcoming at the moment, but you can certainly count on Snow’s belief in . . . finishing the project first and then letting the airplane speak for itself. More detailed information such as specifications and photos should become available probably in 2002 or maybe 2003.
