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Long Range Surveillance Aircraft

The primary role of these aircraft will be to meet the long range maritime patrol requirements in areas that cannot be accomplished by the medium range surveillance (MRS) aircraft. Learn more about the LRS>>

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All operational HC-130H (26) and HC-130J (3) aircraft are now equipped with the Rockwell Collins DF-430-F Multi-mission Direction Finding (DF) system, which has enabled Coast Guard aircrews to save 47 lives since its introduction to the service in 2006; a number of these SAR cases occurred after searches with older style direction finders were unsuccessful.

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Coast Guard Rescues Two Mariners off the Coast of Costa Rica

The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Sherman rescued two mariners from a life raft 50 miles west of Costa Rica earlier this morning. At 7:20 a.m. today a Coast Guard C-130 crew, from Air Station Sacramento, located the life raft in the vicinity of the Electronic Position Indicating Radio Beacon signal and confirmed there were two people in the life raft. Read more>>

Coast Guard HC-130 Fleet Now Fully Equipped With New Direction Finding Capability

The Coast Guard’s Long Range Surveillance aircraft fleet now possesses one of the most powerful tools in search and rescue today.
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As Coast Guard Aviation Celebrates 93rd Birthday, Acquisition and Engineering Communities Reflect on Recent Successes

WASHINGTON—As the 93rd anniversary of Coast Guard flight approaches on April 1, the service’s aviation program office and its partners look back on a successful period of overcoming complex acquisition challenges to help ensure that the aircraft and mission equipment of the front line air stations is “always ready.” Read more>>

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