Paris, Le Bourget, June 17, 2025. — During the Paris Air Show, Aramco ordered two Leonardo C-27J aircraft multi-mission with firefighting configuration, to be delivered starting from 2027. This order marks the first for the type in firefighter and multi-role configuration from a civil operator as well as the first order in the Middle East. Leer másAramco orders two Leonardo C-27J aircraft with firefighting system[…]
SAN DIEGO — The Coast Guard along with federal, state and local agencies, are searching for 6 missing persons due a plane crash near Point Loma, Sunday afternoon. June 8, 2025. Watchstanders at the Joint Harbor Operations Center in San Diego received the initial report at 12:45p.m. detailing a twin-engine Cessna 414 with six persons Leer másCoast Guard and partners respond to plane crash near Point Loma[…]
PORTSMOUTH, Va. — The Coast Guard reminds mariners and residents of the Atlantic and Gulf of America coasts to prepare for the 2025 hurricane season. The Atlantic hurricane season runs from June 1 to November 30, with the peak occurring between mid-August and late October. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Prediction Center anticipates an above-normal Leer másCoast Guard launches 2025 hurricane season with focus on preparedness[…]
Turin 19/02/2024 – The Leonardo C-27J Flying Test Bed is a technological demonstration aircraft in the European Clean Sky 2 programme that concluded, at Turin’s Caselle airport, the Regional Integrated Aircraft Demonstration Platform (REG IADP) campaign. In-flight activities will validate the technical solutions conceived and designed by Leonardo’s engineers in Turin and Pomigliano d’Arco, making Leer másLeonardo C-27J Spartan demonstrator for Clean Sky 2 programme[…]
Rome, 08 June 2023 – The commercial collaboration between Italy and Azerbaijan has been strengthened with the signing a contract with Leonardo for the supply of the C-27J Spartan military aircraft to Azerbaijan Air Force. An Azerbaijani delegation was in Italy for the contract signing in the presence of representatives of the Defence Ministers of Leer másLeonardo and Azerbaijan Air Force signs for C-27J Spartan[…]
SAN DIEGO — The Coast Guard concluded a SAREX (search and rescue exercise) with the Japan Coast Guard training vessel Kojima off the coast of San Diego. Sunday, May 14, 2023. The SAREX is part of Operation Sapphire which was established through a memorandum of cooperation in 2022 between the U.S. and Japan Coast Guards as a Leer másUS and Japan Coast Guard conducts SAREX offshore San Diego[…]
SEATTLE — The Coast Guard aerial and maritime crews responds to a report of an airplane crashed Sunday afternoon in Mutiny Bay west of Whidbey Island. Wacthstanders at the U.S. Coast Guard Sector Puget Sound Command Center received a report at 3:11 p.m. (Pacific Standard Time) that an airplane (seaplane) crashed in Mutiny Bay with Leer másCoast Guard responds to crashed airplane in Mutiny Bay[…]
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The Coast Guard suspends at 10 p.m. Sunday the four-day search for additional survivors of a capsized vessel in Mona Passage waters between Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. Rescued are 38 survivors, 36 Haitian and two Dominican Republic nationals. Rescue crews also recovered 11 people deceased, whose nationalities are Leer másCoast Guard suspends search for survivors in Mona Passage[…]
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico – The crew of the Coast Guard Cutter Joseph Napier recovered the body of a woman and rescue 56 persons from the water Saturday while assisting a Dominican Republic Navy vessel, following the capsizing of an illegal voyage vessel in the Mona Passage. The Dominican Republic Navy crew reportedly recovered twelve Leer másCoast Guard and Dominican Republic Navy rescue 56 in Mona Passage[…]
ALAMEDA, Calif. — The Coast Guard coordinated the rescue of seven people after their 85-foot commercial fishing boat caught fire Wednesday morning, approximately 350 nautical miles west of Monterey. Eleventh Coast Guard District command center watchstanders received multiple emergency position-indicating radio beacon (EPIRB) and personal locator beacon (PLB) alerts belonging to the fishing boat Blue Leer másCoast Guard coordinates rescue of 7 people 350 nm west of Monterey[…]