Until I heard from Carlos Gomez, I hadn’t given much thought to agricultural aviation, more commonly known as crop dusting, and its relation to the South Bay. Gomez mentioned his father Antonio once ...

CHESTERTOWN, Md. (AP) — Police say a pilot suffered minor injuries when his crop dusting plane crash landed after a failed takeoff. Maryland State Police said the pilot, 30-year-old Martin Stoken of ...

CHARLESTON, Mo. -- Stephen Austin's job has been up and down since the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. On Monday it was down. He and other Bootheel crop-dusters, along with their counterparts nationwide, ...

POWELL -- Sounding like a diving World War II Grumman Hellcat determined to strafe an enemy position, the crop duster dives from the sky. In his Grumman Ag-Cat, Orville Moore is pursuing enemies, but ...

YUMA — The crop-duster, that icon of both aviation and agricultural history, brings several images to mind. There's the wild-eyed barnstormer in a biplane who buzzes in low over houses and onto the ...

When Roger Krause's 1985 600HP Air Tractor crop dusting plane started sputtering and losing power over grain fields near Little Cedar last Wednesday morning, he didn't panic. The 62-year old pilot was ...