Coast Guard Air Station Savannah

Coast Guard Air Station Savannah

Coordinates: 32°01′30″N 81°08′30″W / 32.025°N 81.14167°W / 32.025; -81.14167

Coast Guard Air Station Savannah
CGAS Savannah.jpg
Unit Patch CGAS Savannah
Active 1963-Present
Country United States
Branch United States Coast Guard
Type Air Station
Role To patrol coast of the northern border of South Carolina to Melbourne, Florida
Aircraft flown
Helicopter HH-65 Dolphin

Coast Guard Air Station Savannah is a United States Coast Guard Air Station located at Hunter Army Airfield in Savannah, Georgia.

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Operations and missions

HH-65, Air Station Savannah, GA

Coast Guard and Air Station (CGAS) Savannah support a multitude of Coast Guard missions worldwide. Air Station Savannah provides Search & Rescue(SAR) coverage 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, for 450 miles of shoreline from the northern border of South Carolina to Melbourne, Florida, averaging more than 250 SAR cases a year. Other missions include: Marine Safety, Marine Environmental Protection, Fisheries Enforcement, Aids to Navigation support, Migrant Interdiction, Drug Interdiction, Other Law Enforcement and Defense Readiness. Many of these missions require deployment of aviation detachments about Coast Guard Cutters.

History

CGAS Savannah was commissioned in the summer of 1963 on what was then known as Hunter Army Air Force Base (which became Hunter Army Airfield in 1967). In 1964 the Coast Guard's original HH-52A Basic Operational Training Unit (BOTU) was established in Savannah. This unit was the forerunner of the Coast Guard's specialized aviator training program now at the Aviation Training Center in Mobile, Alabama.[1]

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