A Project of the Coast Guard Aviation Association

Time Period: 1920s

Loening OL-5 (1926)

Three OL-5s were purchased. Two were based at Coast Guard Air Station Ten Pound Island Gloucester MA and one at Cape May NJ. Purchased

Vought UO-1, UO-4 (1926)

A UO-1 was borrowed from the Navy to demonstrate the advantages of aircraft during prohibition. The demonstration was successful and appropriations were forthcoming for the

Aeromarine, Model 40 (1917-1921)

The Coast Guard, after commissioning an air station at Morehead City, NC, acquired two of these types from the Navy. This was in addition to

Curtiss HS-2L (1917-1921)

The Coast Guard was transferred from the Navy back to the Treasury Department on 28 August 1919. Coast Guard Captain Stanley V. Parker who had

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