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Aviation History Month: Aircraft and Paratroopers in the Forest Service

November 18, 2016 Donavan Albert, Office of Communication, U.S. Forest Service

It shouldn’t surprise anyone that the U.S. Forest Service relies heavily on fixed wing and rotary aircraft to accomplish the agency’s mission. Employees take to the skies for forest inventory surveys, prescribed fire support, firefighting or to get to remote locations. Since 1919, aircraft has been...

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