Sheehy pushed to cut firefighting aircraft inspections the same month his former company failed one

By: Abe Streep

Outlets: Daily Montanan

Published: June 9, 2026

Words: 2,656

Last Updated: 2 days, 9 hours ago

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This story was originally published by ProPublica. The original article can be found here.

A little more than a year ago, Sen. Tim Sheehy floated an audacious proposal to reshape the way the federal government fights wildfires. It called for expanding the use of private planes and helicopters to quickly attack blazes while also eliminating the U.S. Forest Service’s rigorous airworthiness inspections for those aircraft.

The idea stood to benefit Sheehy, a Montana …

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