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    -- George Bernard Shaw

    U. S. Coast Guard Aircraft Types

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    Types of Fixed Wing Aircraft:

    "F" Flying Boat; Curtiss; 1915

    Curtiss "BT" Flying Boat (twin propellers) 1916

    R-6 Seaplane; Curtiss 1917

    Model 40F Flying Boat, Aeromarine 1920

    HS-2L Flying Boat; Curtiss 1920

    Model 40 Flying Boat; Aeromarine 1920

    MF Flying Boat, Curtiss; 1925

    UO-1 (UO-4) Seaplane; Vought; 1925

    OL-5 Amphibian, Loening; 1926

    S-39 Amphibian Sikorsky; 1930-1935 (on loan from Sikorsky)

    OO-1 Flying Boat; Schreck / Viking 1931

    0-38C Biplane; Douglas; 1931

    RD, RD-1 / 4 Dolphin Amphibian; Douglas; 1932

    N4Y-1 Biplane; Consolidated; 1932

    PJ-1 / PJ-2 Flying Boat, General Aviation;1932

    1932 NT-2 Biplane; Standard; 1934

    O2U-2 Corsair Biplane; Chance-Vought; 1934

    JF-2; J2F-5 / 6 Duck Amphibian; Grumman; 1934

    RQ-1 (XR3Q-1) Reliant; Stinson; 1934

    RT-1 Golden Goose; Northrop; 1935

    (X)R30-1 Electra; Lockheed; 1936

    J2W-1 Biplane; Waco; 1937

    J2K-1; Fairchild; 1937

    PH-2 / 3 Flying Boat, Biplane; Hall; 1938

    SOC-4 Amphibian; Curtiss; 1938

    JRF-2 / 3 / 5 Goose; Grumman; 1939

    R-50-1 / 4 / 5 Lodestar; Lockheed; 1940

    N3N-3 Biplane; Naval Aircraft Factory; 1940

    PBY-5 Catalina Flying Boat; Consolidated; 1941

    J4F-1 / 2 Widgeon Amphibian; Grumman; 1941

    SNV-1; Vultee; 1942

    OS2U-2 / 3 Kingfisher Amphibian; Vought; 1942

    JRB-4 / 5 Expeditor; Beech; 1943

    R5C-1 Commando; Curtiss; 1943

    SNJ-5 Texan; North American; 1943

    SO3C-1 / 2; Curtiss; 1943

    PBM-3C / 3D / 3S / 5 Flying Boat; Martin; 1943

    R4D-5 Skytrain; Douglas; 1943

    PB4Y-1P Liberator; Consolidated; 1944

    PB2Y-3 Coronado Flying Boat; Convair; 1944

    GH-2 / 3 Nightingale; Howard; 1944

    PB4Y-2G [P4Y-2] Privateer, Convair, 1945

    PB-1G Flying Fortress; Boeing; 1945

    R5D-3 / 4 Skymaster; Douglas; 1945

    N2S-3 Biplane; Stearman/Boeing; 1946

    OY-1 / 2 (L-5) Sentinel; Stinson; 1948

    UF-1G / 2G (later HU-16E) Albatross or Goat; Amphibian; Grumman; 1951

    RM-1Z (VC-3A) 4-0-4; Martin; 1953

    P5M-1G / 2G Marlin Flying Boat; Martin; 1954

    C-123B Provider; Fairchild; 1958

    HC-130B / H / J Hercules; Lockheed; 1959; also EC-130E

    VC-4A Gulfstream I; Grumman; 1963

    VC-11A Gulfstream II; Grumman; 1965

    HC-131A Samaritan; Convair; 1976

    HU-25A / B / C Guardian; Dassault-Breguet; 1977

    C-20 B Gulfstream IV; Gulfstream Aviation, 1983

    E-2C Hawkeye; Grumman; 1987

    RG-8A Condor; Schweizer; 1986

    RU-38A; Schweizer

    C-37A Gulfstream Aviation; 2002

    Prototypes, test aircraft and miscellaneous acquisitions:

    CASA-212 300 Aviocar

    Cessna Citation 500

    Curtiss SB2C-4 Helldiver

    Israeli Aircraft Industries Commodore Westwind 1123

    North American B-25J Mitchell (44-31357)

    MH-90 Enforcer; MD Helicopters; 1999

    Types of Rotary Wing Aircraft:

    HNS-1 Hoverfly; Sikorsky, 1943

    HOS-1 (R-6) Sikorsky, 1945

    HO2S-1 (R-5A) Sikorsky, 1946

    HO3S-1G Sikorsky, 1947

    HRP-1 Flying Banana; Piasecki, 1948

    K-225 Kaman, 1950

    HO4S-1G (S-55; HH-19G) Sikorsky, 1951

    HO5S-1G Sikorsky, 1952

    HUS-1G (S-58; HH-34) Sikorsky, 1959

    S-62 (Redesignated HH-52) Seaguard; Sikorsky, 1963

    HH-3 Pelican; Sikorsky, 1968

    HH-65 Dolphin; A?rospatiale, 1984

    CH-3E Sea King; Sikorsky, 1989

    HH-60 Jayhawk; Sikorsky, 1990

    MH-68; Agusta Helicopters; 2001
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    1775: In Massachusetts, British troops march out of Boston on a mission to confiscate the Patriot arsenal at Concord and to capture Patriot leaders Samuel Adams and John Hancock, known to be hiding at Lexington. As the British departed, Boston Patriots Paul Revere and William Dawes set out on horseback from the city to warn Adams and Hancock and rouse the Patriot minutemen.

    1847: U.S. forces defeat Mexicans at Cerro Gordo in one of the bloodiest battle of the war.

    1864: At Poison Springs, Arkansas, Confederate soldiers under the command of General Samuel Maxey capture a Union forage train and slaughter black troops escorting the expedition.

    1885: The Sino-Japanese war ends.

    1943: Traveling in a bomber, Japanese Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto, the mastermind of the attack on Pearl Harbor, is shot down by American P-38 fighters.

    1983: A suicide bomber kills U.S. Marines at the U.S. Embassy in Lebanon.


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