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The Cape Lookout Coast Guard Station is located on the Core Banks of North Carolina between Cape Lookout and the Cape Lookout Light. The station was built as a lifeboat station beginning in 1916 and comprises a complex of several frame buildings. The chief structure is the Main Station, a neo-colonial building with a central cupola or watchtower.
Coast Guard Station North Scituate: North Scituate: 1884 1947 Yes Unknown 2nd 27 [53] Coast Guard Station Old Harbor: Chatham: 1897–1898 1947 41 [54] Coast Guard Station Orleans: Orleans: 1872–1873 1947 12 40 [55] Coast Guard Station Pamet River: Truro: 1873 1938 9 37 [56] Coast Guard Station Peaked Hill Bars: Provincetown: 1872 1938 7 34 [57]
A part of the Cape Fear region, the station is in the United States Coast Guard 5th District which is charged with ensuring the safety and security of the oceans, coastal areas, and marine transportation system within the Mid-Atlantic Region. The district encompasses some 156,000 square miles of ocean, bays, rivers, wetlands and tidal marshes ...
The Coast Guard operates approximately 210 aircraft from 24 Coast Guard Air Stations in the United States. Fixed-wing aircraft, such as the HC-130 Hercules, are built for long range missions and operate from air stations. The air stations and facilities are also home to locally based MH-65D Dolphin and Sikorsky HH-60 Jayhawk helicopters and ...
It was established in World War II as Naval Auxiliary Air Station Harvey Point, an operating base for sea planes conducting anti-submarine surveillance off the Atlantic coast. A close by naval facility, Naval Air Station Weeksville , served as a blimp base from 1941 to 1957, while another former naval air facility remains active as Coast Guard ...
Elizabeth City Regional Airport covers an area of 850 acres (344 ha) at an elevation of 12 feet (4 m) above mean sea level.It has two runways with asphalt and concrete surfaces: 10/28 is 7,219 by 150 feet (2,200 x 46 m) and 1/19 is 4,518 by 150 feet (1,377 x 46 m).
The Chicamacomico Life-Saving Station (/ ˌ tʃ ɪ k ə m ə ˈ k ɒ m ɪ k oʊ /; [2] CLSS) is a former station of the United States Life-Saving Service and United States Coast Guard. It is located in Rodanthe, North Carolina, on Hatteras Island in the Outer Banks, on the east side of what is today Highway 12. Today, the surviving buildings of ...
Douglas A. Munro Coast Guard Headquarters Building in St. Elizabeths West Campus. Map of USCG Districts. The headquarters of the Coast Guard is located at 2703 Martin Luther King Jr Avenue SE in Washington, D.C. The Coast Guard relocated to the grounds of the former St. Elizabeths Hospital [1] in 2013.