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[…]
CLEARWATER, Fla. — A Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater MH-60T Jayhawk helicopter aircrew medevac a 58-year-old mariner (man) experiencing severe abdominal pain approximately 170 nautical miles southwest of Clearwater. Thursday, May 22, 2025. The man was safely transported to Tampa General Hospital for a higher level of care. Coast Guard 8th District (Heartland) watchstanders received Leer másCoast Guard MH-60T medevac mariner 170 miles southwest of Clearwater[…]
SAN FRANCISCO — The Coast Guard Air Station Ventura has conducted its first rescue mission with the medevac of a 63-year-old man suffering severe abdominal pain from the cruise ship Grand Princess off Los Angeles, Sunday afternoon, October 13, 2024. The patient was hoisted aboard the MH-60T Jayhawk Medium-Range Recovery Helicopter and was transferred to awaiting emergency medical services (EMS) Leer másCoast Guard Air Station Ventura conducts its first rescue[…]
CLEARWATER, Fla. — A Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater MH-60T Jayhawk aircrew rescue a 72-year-old sailor (male) after his 40-foot sailing vessel took on water 185 nautical miles west of Fort Myers. Friday, March 15, 2024. The Coast Guard Air Station Clearwater MH-60T Jayhawk Medium-Range Recovery Helicopter and a HC-27J Spartan airplane crews spotted the man, Leer másA Coast Guard MH-60T rescue sailor 185 nm offshore Fort Myers[…]
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[…]
PORTSMOUTH, Va. – Coast Guard celebrates 75th anniversary of the Coast Guard Aviation Logistics Center Thursday at 10 a.m. in Elizabeth City, North Carolina. Adm. Steven D. Poulin, Coast Guard Vice Commandant, is scheduled to attend the event along with Vice Adm. Paul F. Thomas, Deputy Commandant for Mission Support, and Rear Adm. Carola J. Leer más75th Anniversary of Coast Guard Aviation Logistics Center[…]