The first of 18 of these Rosenbauer Panther ULFVs entered service at Perth Airport in March 2005. The vehicles are built by Rosenbauer in the USA to Airservices Australia specifications at a cost of A$1.1 million per vehicle. The photo above shows one of the first brand-new Panthers outside the Airport Fire Station at Avalon on 17 March 2007. The following day it was put on display at the Australian International Airshow.

These 10 m long, 30-tonne vehicles can deliver 5700 litres of foam per minute and can throw foam in excess of 80 metres from its roof-mounted monitor. These vehicles have a top speed of 120 km/h. The grey 'box' on the roof just behind the passenger side window contains floodlights on a telescopic mast to provide area lighting if necessary.

The photo below shows the first Panther for Melbourne Airport ARFF being delivered on 21 January 2009. The Panthers will eventually replace Melbourne's fleet of earlier Mills-Tui Mk 7 ULFVs. In a departure from the traditional colour scheme for ARFF vehicles, all later Panthers are being delivered in high-visibility yellow-green. Later Panthers also include some minor internal differences to earlier vehicles.