A ground crew and one pilot will be operating out of the Haleyville airport through Tuesday with one mission. Spreading fertilizer on thousands of acres of pine trees for timber companies. Each flight of the Air Tractor delivers 6 tons (12,000 lbs) to a crop of pine trees a few miles south of Haleyville.

The specially formulated fertilizer makes an otherwise slow-growing crop grow much quicker, thus a quicker return on investment for the owners. Hog Aviation, based in NE Arkansas is doing the spraying.