That bright yellow plane that landed on April 14 may have looked like one of the BC Wildfire Service's air tankers of old, but what landed at Penticton's Regional Airport is not a firefighting plane. 

What landed in Penticton is instead one of the Royal Canadian Airforce's Search and Rescue fleet aircraft.

The identification on the nose of the plane of 50B marks it as one of the new CC-295 Kingfishers, which are split into 19 Wing Comox, 17 Wing Winnipeg, 8 Wing Trenton, and 14 Wing Greenwood.

It is not clear why the plane is currently in Penticton.

The BC Wildfire Service's fleet of planes that station in Penticton are made up of De Havilland Dash 8 Q400, which replaced the Convair tankers that used to fly out of the airport until 2022. 

Those planes have three-digit identifiers located on the tail and are white and red in colour scheme.