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The Coast Guard's team of ASTs is composed of about 350 active-duty members, and just over 1000 members have passed the training to become Helicopter Rescue Swimmers since the mid-1980s. The training school has one of the highest attrition rates of any military school with about 80% of candidates failing to complete the program.
Cal Fire’s newest addition to its helicopter fleet is the Fire Hawk — a Sikorsky S70i Black Hawk retrofitted to drop water or fire retardant, as well as conduct hoist rescue and night operations.
In 1968, the unit received its first turbine-powered helicopter, the Bell 206A JetRanger, which significantly decreased police response times. With a major expansion in 1974, the Helicopter Unit was renamed the Air Support Division. At that time, the ASD grew to fifteen helicopters and one Cessna 210 crewed by 77 sworn personnel. In 1976, the ...
Helicopter Maritime Strike Weapons School Pacific (HSMWSP) is a United States Navy helicopter training squadron based at NAS North Island, Coronado, California.HSMWSP provides advanced air combat weapons and tactics training and standardization for ten Pacific Fleet HSM squadrons composed of MH-60R and MQ-8B aircraft.
From there, the system became commercialized, and available to industrial and search and rescue teams outside of the Parks Canada Safety Program. One of the earliest SAR teams in Canada to adopt the commercial system was North Shore Rescue , and was eventually followed by other teams with high call volumes, and mountainous terrain such as ...
Crews from HSM-49 operate the MH−60R Seahawk, a helicopter manufactured by Sikorsky Aircraft and equipped with two front-drive T700−GE−401C turboshaft engines manufactured by the General Electric Company. The helicopter has fixed landing gear, an external cargo hook, a rescue hoist, and bomb racks for carrying and launching external stores.
A CH-146 of the Royal Canadian Air Force 424 Squadron conducts rescue swimmer hoist training in 2012. See Bell 412 military operators for other users, the CH-146 is the Canadian version of this aircraft. Canada. Royal Canadian Air Force [34] Tactical Helicopter role. 400 Tactical Helicopter Squadron [35] 403 Helicopter Operational Training ...
Five Marines have been confirmed dead after their helicopter crashed Tuesday night, according to the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing. ... remote area of Southern California during a training flight ...