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The Ayres Thrush, formerly the Snow S-2, [1] Aero Commander Ag Commander, and Rockwell Thrush Commander, is an American agricultural aircraft produced by Ayres Corporation and more recently by Thrush Aircraft. It is one of the most successful and long-lived agricultural application aircraft types in the world, with almost 2,000 sold since the ...
In 1977, Ayres bought the Albany, Georgia division of Rockwell International, which made the S2R Thrush Commander agricultural aircraft. [1] [failed verification] Before this, Ayres had been a distributor of Thrush Commanders. [citation needed] After the acquisition, Ayres developed two-seat and turboprop-powered versions of the Thrush Commander.
In July 2001, Ayres filed for bankruptcy and the rights to the S-2 aircraft were passed to Quality Aerospace. [1] In 2003, the factory was purchased by Larry Bays and Payne Hughes, and one month later Quality Aerospace transferred the type certificates of the S-2 to Thrush Aircraft. [2] [3] In 2005, the company had 150 employees. [4]
Early Snow S-2A open-cockpit ex-crop sprayer of 1959 at Santa Fe, New Mexico, in 1997 N9462R Snow S-2C-600 built circa 1961, seen here at a later date after being fitted with enclosed cockpit Snow Aeronautical was an American aircraft manufacturer established in 1956 in Olney, Texas by Leland Snow to manufacture and market agricultural aircraft ...
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Agricultural variant for high-cycle operation, used on the PZL Kruk and Ayres Thrush. M601D-2 Special variant for paradrop aircraft, used on the Do 28 and some Finist conversions. M601D-11 Agricultural and paradrop variant with a higher Time Between Overhaul of up to 1800 hours. M601D-11NZ Downrated variant for use in the FU-24 Fletcher. M601E
L-610M Basic variant with Walter M602 engines. L-610G / Ayres 7000 Variant with General Electric XT7-9D engines. L-610 MPA Proposed Anti-submarine warfare variant. TVRS-44 44-seat Russian variant proposed by Ural aviation plant UZGA, powered by 2,400 hp (1,800 kW) Klimov TV7-117 turbprops of the Ilyushin Il-114-300 from Russia’s United Engine Corporation to replace Antonov An-24s, An-26s and ...
The General Electric H-Series is a family of turboprop aircraft engines produced by GE BGA Turboprops. The initial H80 is an updated derivative of the Walter M601 , while the H75 and H85 are later derivatives.