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Special Unit Profile USCG Air Station Miami

By Brent Holman ATP/CFI/Helo. Bell 206L

This article is published here by courtesy of the Professional Pilot’s Magazine and is a special Report on “The Busiest Air/Sea Rescue Unit in the World.”

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Historical Narratives

The Rescue of MISTY 11

1432 Remembrance Ceremony

First Coast Guard Overflight of the Geographic North Pole May 7, 1969

Expedition to the Arctic: Coast Guard Aviation and the Distant Early Warning Line (1955)

USCG Helos to the Rescue

The Story of Chief Gus Jablonski

The Cold War: CG Reconnaissance Flights

John M. “Muddy” Waters Jr. USCG

Elmer Stone: Aviation Visionary

Hank Pfeiffer and the HO4S-3G 1305

A Job Well Done: Captain Michael D. Emerson USCG

Casey Quinn: One of a Kind

Cosmic Overseas Airways

Captain David Gershowitz USCG

Making A Difference

CDR Frank Lawler Shelly, USCG The HH-52A Helicopter

On the Edge

Walter C. Bolton: A Chronology of Events and Achievements

First Coast Guard African American Woman to Receive the Air Medal

First Women of U.S. Coast Guard Aviation

Coast Guard Aviation and the Drug War

And That’s The Way It Was: Combat SAR in Vietnam

Out of the Wreckage

The Coast Guard’s Air War At Sea

Rough Seas and Cigars

Alaskan Monarch Trapped by Ice

Hafa Adai and Salty Dogs

Did You Really Do That?

Betsy: The Other Hurricane

Genesis of the Coast Guard HH-65 Helicopter

The Sinking That Never Happened by an Airplane That Never Flew

Cap’n Mac and Flying Coffins

JATO – The Early Days

Who Saw This Coming

Bernie’s Air Stories

Eyes of the Icebreakers

U.S. Coast Guard Aviation Pilots

The Indispensable Men

Hurricane Katrina

A Different Time – A Different Environment

A Hand Salute to an Outstanding Group

Nostalgic Sea Language

Number 66260

CGAS Sangley Point History

Grand Fun While It Lasted

Special Unit Profile USCG Air Station Miami

CDR Elmer Archie Stone

Coast Guard Aviation

Rotary Wings and Other Things

The Story of Coast Guard Aviation

The Future Of CG Aviation

Story of CF Edge – Locating First CG Air Station Alaska

A Star is Born – Story of the RD Dolphin Pterodactyls placed in the Naval Air Museum

Naval Air Station Sidney WWI

The Grumman Albatross – A World Beater

Cigars and Rough Weather

First Helo Ice Breaker Deployment

North Star J2F Duck

The Day I Was Ten Feet Tall

CG Aviation Beginning Demise Resurrection

The Legacy of Commander Elmer F. Stone – Coast Guard Aviator #1

The First Transatlantic Flight

A Brief History of Coast Guard Aviation

Some Recollections of Early Coast Guard Aviation

The Norther

Operation Tight Reign

Wolfpack and Sunday Comics

A History of the United States Coast Guard Catalina, PBY-5, No. V-189

CGAS Port Angeles WWII Diary

Waco J2W-1 and El Paso Detachment

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