Air Tractor Inc

 A Chronology of Air Tractor Production Milestones:

1951:    
»  Design of Snow S-1

1958:    
»  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

1959:
»  Company moves into new facility
»  First three planes leave the factory
»  First production S-2B flown

1960:
»  First delivery to a foreign country (Panama)

1961:
»  S-2C test flown
»  100th plane delivered, to Mississippi operator

1963:
»  First flight of the S-2D prototype

1964:
»  Company moves into new office building and expanded plant facilities

1965:
»  Production increased to one plane every three working days
»  S-2D certification completed
»  Snow Aeronautical acquired by Rockwell-Standard

1966:
»  First S-2R test flown

1970:
»  Rockwell moves ag plane production to Albany, GA

1972:
»  Leland Snow returns to Olney and begins construction of the first Air Tractor

1973:
»  AT-300 test flown

1974:
»  AT-301 test flown

1975:
»  Twenty Air Tractors delivered; 24 employees move into new plant

1977:
»  AT-302 test flown

1979:
»  AT-400 test flown

1983:
»  AT-250 test flown

1984:
»  AT-500 test flown

1986:
»  AT-503 test flown
»  AT-401 test flown

1987:
»  AT-501 test flown
»  AT-502 test flown

1988:
»  AT-402 test flown

1990:
»  AT-802, world’s largest ag plane, is test flown

1992:
»  AT-502A test flown

1993:
»  1,100th Air Tractor delivered

1995:
»  AT-602 test flown

1996:
»  Ground breaking for new 55,000 sq. ft. facility in Olney, TX
»  1,400th Air Tractor rolls off assembly line
»  AT-402A test flown

1997:
»  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

2005:
»  200th AT-802 delivered to Conair Group, Inc., British Columbia