The IVECO MAGIRUS Airport Reception Committee

The protective fire safety on airports is generally considered to be one of the most complex and greatest challenges for the fire services - and thus also for all manufacturers of fire fighting vehicles.

IVECO MAGIRUS offers a world-wide unique product range for holistically covering all potential hazards that must be met on airports.

For the protection of buildings and facilities, IVECO MAGIRUS offers a wide range from command vehicles via first-intervention vehicles, light and special fire fighting vehicles to various different turntable ladders and aerial telescopic platforms with a rescue height of up to 54 m.

Rescue vehicles and equipment carriers as well as swap body vehicles with a large roll-off container program complete the range.

With the airport crash tender range DRAGON x4, x6 and x8, IVECO MAGIRUS offers three variants in this "top of the range“ category, that will meet even the most specific requirements.

Real powerhouses in the form of currently unrivalled high-performing IVECO 1.024 hp or 1.500 hp engines with last generation common-rail injection technology do not only provide for an enormous acceleration but also for an enormous fire fighting power.

Up to 10000 l/min pump capacity, 14.000 litres fire fighting agents in a combination of water, powder, and foam as well as precise monitors with long throw ranges guarantees a fast and effective fire fighting operation.

The excellent cross-country capabilities of these vehicles provide for an unrestricted mobility and ensure that fire fighting can also be effected away from the runway without any loss of time.

Best example: the delivery of 3 DRAGON x6 to AENA (Aeropuertos Espanoles y Navegacion Aerea). The vehicles possess a 1,024 HP IVECO-V8 engine with direct injection system already mentioned above, an Allison-automatic-gearbox with 6 forward and 2 reverse speeds as well as 6 self-ventilated disc brakes with ABS sensor at each tyre.

The maximum speed is approx. 120 km/ h; it accelerates the DRAGON's 35 tonnes from 0 to 80 km/ h in a very impressive 23 seconds.

The DRAGON x6's driver's cab and crew cab (1+3 places) are flexibly mounted onto the chassis frame and are made of aluminium alloy resistant to all types of corrosion.  Easy access to the engine is possible by a hydraulic system enabling folding-open of the rear mounted engine cover, also made of aluminium alloy.

The vehicle's technical fire fighting equipment includes a GRP water tank with 10,000 litres capacity as well as a GRP foam tank of approx. 1,200 litres. The Magirus pump delivers 7,500 litres/ minute at 10 bars, the roof monitor 5,000 litres/minute and the front-monitor 1,500 litres/ minute. The additional available dry powder system has a capacity of 250 kg.

Furthermore the DRAGON x6 for AENA is provided with a driver's cab self-protection system with integrated water-spray nozzles which are mounted at the front as well as left and right above the cab. An additional floor-spraying system with four spray nozzles distributes water or water and foam.

Like all DRAGONS also this vehicle disposes of state-of-the-art CAN-Bus-Technology guaranteeing the fastest data-transfer between each of the aggregate's modules.
The IMPACT series, with the variants x4 and x6, is the ideal completion to the DRAGON range or even a cost-effective alternative, e.g. for smaller airports.

Based on highly cross-country capable, single tyre IVECO four-wheel-drive chassis, these vehicles are extremely mobile but nevertheless equipped with an impressive fire fighting power: depending on vehicle type up to 12.000 litres of fire fighting agent can be carried on board.

This concept has been very much proven in practice as is shown by the more than 150 IMPACT vehicles that are currently in world-wide operational use at airport fire service departments.

An IMPACT x6 (TLF 30/57-7-360) on an IVECO Trakker was delivered to the Adolph-Wuerth-Airport in Schwäbisch-Hall (Southern Germany). The vehicle features tanks for 5,700 l water and 750 l of foam compound as well as capacity for 360 kg of CO2.

The powerful MAGIRUS pump delivers an output of 3,000 l/min at 10 bars. 440 HP engine power enables speed on the runway; all-wheel drive and single tyres allow it to be extremely capable off-road. Furthermore a lighting mast mounted on the rear of the vehicle with 2 x 1,000 W and a 13.5 kVA electric generator belongs to the vehicle equipment.

For the Spanish Dragon x6 and the Schwäbisch Hall pump water tanker TLF as with all other IVECO MAGIRUS vehicles continuous operational preparedness is guaranteed: A network of Service stations in almost 150 countries around the globe is available round the clock