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Long Range Surveillance Aircraft

HC-130J Long Range Surveillance Aircraft
An HC-130J in flight over North Carolina. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Dave Silva

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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The fourth missionized HC-130J was delivered to the Coast Guard Aug. 19. Eleven of 17 HC-130H aircraft have SELEX radar installed.

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Coast Guard’s HC-130J Missionization Project Ahead of Schedule,
Benefits from Lessons Learned

The U.S. Coast Guard’s $162.5 million HC-130J Missionization Project, which upgrades crucial communication and surveillance electronic equipment on the service’s six J-model Hercules long range surveillance aircraft, has provided a fourth plane to Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C.
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Coast Guard Accepts Fourth Missionized HC-130J

On August 19, 2009, the United States Coast Guard took delivery of its fourth missionized HC-130J “Hercules” Long Range Surveillance aircraft (number CG 2004), at Lockheed Martin’s Greenville Operations Facility in Greenville, S.C., nine days ahead of contract schedule. Read more>>

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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