U.S. Coast Guard – The Aviationist

Chuck Norris Approved: Elite LEDET Team Member Swash-Buckles Narco Sub.

July 12, 2019 Tom Demerly 0

Coast Guard’s Law Enforcement Detachment Wins Internet with Daring Capture. In only a few hours the remarkable video of a member of the Coast Guard’s elite Law Enforcement Detachment Team (LEDET) leaping from a rigid […]

Amazing footage filmed by a USCG C-130 of a small plane (saved by parachute) ditching off Hawaii

January 26, 2015 David Cenciotti 5

Interesting footage of a Cirrus ditching in the Pacific Ocean filmed by a U.S. Coast Guard C-130 Hercules. On Jan. 26, a Cirrus SR-22 plane on delivery flight across the Pacific from San Francisco Bay […]

U.S. Coast Guard to get 14 C-27J planes the Air Force was about to mothball

January 11, 2014 Bjorn Broten 3

U.S. Coast Guard finally got authorization to acquire the last 14 Alenia Aermacchi C-27J Spartan that the USAF was going to mothball, through an intra service transfer. Ever since the Air Force announced back in […]

Terryfing GoPro footage of Hawaiian plane crash from inside the cabin

January 11, 2014 David Cenciotti 4

Hopefully, this is the closest you’ll ever get to be aboard an aircraft crashing into the water. The dramatic video was filmed by Ferdinand Puentes, a passenger of a Cessna Grand Caravan plane that ditched […]

U.S. Coast Guard wants to get its hands on 14 C-27J Spartan planes

November 19, 2013 David Cenciotti 1

Pentagon has recently announced the decision to assign seven C-27J Spartan airlifters to the U.S. SOCOM (Special Operations Command). The aircraft are part of the batch of 21 tactical transport aircraft procured by the U.S. […]