USCG AVIATION

UPDATED DECEMBER 2021

IN THE BEGINNING

Photo: U.S. Coast Guard 

 

FLYING BOAT - 1958

Photo: U.S. Coast Guard

It's all hands on deck as a U.S. Coast Guard "Giant Marlin Flying Boat" delivers a stricken seaman to a marine hospital in 1958.

HURRICANE KATRINA - 2005

Photo: Petty Officer 2nd Class Kyle Niemi, USCG

Petty Officer 1st Class Steven Huerta hoists two children into a U.S. Coast Guard helicopter in New Orleans in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005.


PELICAN HH-3F

Photo: Wikipedia The U.S. Coast Guard maintained a fleet of aptly-named HH-3F Pelican amphibious helicopters from 1972 to 1994 primarily for search and rescue missions. This chopper is attending a boat fire.

ALASKA - 2018

 

In Alaska, a pair of MH-60 Jayhawk helicopters from U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Sitka hoisted 11 people to safety after a floatplane crashed on a mountain on Prince of Wales Island on July 10, 2018. There were no serious injuries.  “Cases like these exemplify the versatility of our aircrews," said Commander Michael Kahle of Coast Guard Sector Juneau.

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GULF OF MEXICO - 2020

Photo: U.S. Coast Guard

MH-65 helicopter from U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Houston prepares to hoist two stranded mariners from the sailing vessel Rhapsody, which suffered an engine room fire about 288 miles east-southeast of Corpus Christi, Texas, on Jan. 2, 2020.


OFF MASSACHUSETTS - 2017

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Petty Officer 2nd Class Clinton Laramore hoists injured crewman from fishing boat Orion onto U.S. Coast Guard Air Station Cape Cod helicopter 50 miles east of Gloucester, Massachusetts, on Aug. 8, 2017.

Photo: Petty Officer 3rd Class Andrew Barresi, USCG

OFF LOUISIANA - 2021

Photo: U.S. Coast Guard

A MH-65 Dolphin helicopter crew from Coast Guard Sector New Orleans hoisted a patient experiencing stroke-like symptoms from cruise ship Liberty of The Seas about 80 miles south of Grand Isle, Louisiana, on Sept. 13, 2021. The ship bound for Houston was diverted to New Orleans to avoid Tropical Storm Nicholas.


OHIO RIVER FLOOD - 1937

Photo: Willard Library, Evansville Indiana

U. S. Coast Guard crewman watches Coast Guard floatplane landing on Ohio River during catastrophic 1937 flood in Evansville, Indiana.


SWOOPING IN AT SEA

Photo: NASA

Vintage photo of U.S. Coast Guardsman lowered from chopper with rescue gear at sea.


PROHIBITION

Photo: U.S. Coast Guard

Semper Paratus. U.S. Coast Guard aviation crew on Rum Patrol during Prohibition. The Coast Guard was at the front line in the battle with liquor smugglers.