At the Wildland Fire 2003 global firefighting conference in Sydney, Australia, Erickson Air-Crane announced it closed a USD 95m deal with the State Forestry Corps of Italy (Corpo Forestale dello Stato) to build four S-64 Aircrane helitankers. "This has been in the works for quite a while", said Erickson President Ralph Torney, who has recently come back from Italy. "We'll start small and we're still...