Coast Guard Air Stations
In March 1920 the Coast Guard's first air station was established at Morehead City, North Carolina, when the service took over the abandoned naval air station and borrowed four Curtiss HS-2L flying-boats and two Aeromarine Model 40s from the U.S. Navy. However, funds were not provided to support the operation and the station was closed. During 1925 LCDR C. G. von Paulsen, USCG borrowed a Vought UO-1 seaplane from the US Navy and, operating from Squantum, Massachusetts and later Ten Pound Island in Gloucester Harbor, he demonstrated the potential of aviation in combating the smuggling of whiskey.
With an appropriation of money by Congress for the purchase of five aircraft-three Loening OL-5 amphibians and two Chance Vought UO-4's--the first to be owned by the service, these were flown from air stations established at Ten Pound Island, Gloucester, Massachusetts, and Cape May, New Jersey. From that point Coast Guard aviation continued to grow and stations were established around the country. *
AIRSTA Sangley Point
Other aviation stations/facilities/units:
Air Detachment Argentia, Newfoundland
Air Detachment Bermuda
Air Detachment Buffalo, NY
Air Detachment Cleveland, OH
Air Patrol Detachment El Paso, TX
Air Detachment Guam
Air Detachment Kaneohe, Hawaii
Air Facility Norfolk, Norfolk Naval Air Station, VA
Aviation Station Morehead City, NC
Aviation Station Ten Pound Island, MA
Aviation Training Center Mobile, AL
Aircraft Repair and Supply Center Elizabeth City, NC
Aviation Technical Training Center, Elizabeth City, NC
Aircraft Program Office, Grand Prairie, TX
Helicopter Interdiction Squadron (HITRON), Jacksonville, FL
SAR Detachment Adak
SAR Detachment Midway
SAR Detachment Sangley Point
SAR Detachment Wake
*Arthur Pearcy, A History of Coast Guard Aviation, (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1989), p. 85.
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