HH-65 CG-6505 mishap 4 Sept 08

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Current Events!

SENIOR CHIEF PETTY OFFICER VICKI CATES
Receives CG Commendation and Ptero Award

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Pacific Aviation Museum-Pearl Harbor

Its ready! Read Roost Details and register online!

Ceremony at ATC recognizes Master Chief Greathouse
last enlisted Aviation Pilot in the Coast Guard

City of Mobile proclaims Jan 22 Coast Guard Aviation Day

Martin Legion of Merit Video

Tam Communications-Source for USCG Rescue Videos

DVD of Early CG Rescue Helicopter Footage now available!

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Regular membership in the Pterodactyl's is open to former and present Officers and Enlisted personnel of the U.S. Coast Guard who have piloted or flown in U.S. Coast Guard aircraft under official flight orders.  Regular membership  also includes designated pilots of other military services and foreign governments who have piloted Coast Guard aircraft while involved in exchange programs between the Coast Guard and their respective service or government.

Associate membership in the Pterodactyl's is open to persons who are supportive of the interests and goals of Coast Guard Aviation. 

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Pterodactyl ( ter' e-dak' t'l)

• Any of a number of related flying reptiles, extinct at the end of the Mesozoic Era., having wings of skin stretched along the body between the hind limb and a very long digit of the forelimb with the wingspan reaching 18 feet.

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