In March 1920 the Coast Guard's first air station was established at Morehead City, North Carolina, when the service took over the abandoned naval air station and borrowed a few Curtiss HS-2L flying-boats and possibly one or two Aeromarine Model 40's from the US Navy. However, funds were not provided to support the operation and the station was closed on 1 July 1921. During 1925 LCDR C. G. von Paulsen, USCG borrowed a Vought UO-1 seaplane from the US Navy and, operating from Squantum, MA and later Ten Pound Island in Gloucester Harbor, he demonstrated the potential of aviation in combating the smuggling of whiskey.

With an appropriation of money by Congress for the purchase of five aircraft--three Loening OL-5 amphibians and two Chance Vought UO-4's--the first to be owned by the service, these were flown from air stations established at Ten Pound Island, Gloucester, MA, and Cape May, NJ. From that point Coast Guard aviation continued to grow and stations were established around the country.

AIRSTA Annette

AIRSTA Arlington

AIRSTA Astoria

AIRSTA Atlantic City

AIRSTA Barbers Point

AIRSTA Biloxi

AIRSTA Borinquen

AIRSTA Brooklyn

AIRSTA Cape Cod

AIRSTA Cape May

AIRSTA Chicago

AIRSTA Clearwater

AIRSTA Corpus Christi

AIRSTA Detroit

AIRSTA Elizabeth City

AIRSTA Houston

AIRSTA Humboldt Bay

AIRSTA Kodiak

AIRSTA Los Angeles

AIRSTA Miami

AIRSTA Mobile

AIRSTA New Orleans

AIRSTA North Bend

AIRSTA Port Angeles

AIRSTA Sacramento

AIRSTA St Augustine

AIRSTA St Petersburg

AIRSTA Salem

AIRSTA San Diego

AIRSTA San Francisco

AIRSTA Savannah

AIRSTA Sitka

AIRSTA Traverse City


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Other aviation stations/facilities:


Air Station Morehead City, NC [see introduction for further information]

Air Station Ten Pound Island, MA [see introduction for further information]

Air Facility Norfolk, Norfolk Naval Air Station, Virginia

Aviation Training Center Mobile, Alabama

Aircraft Repair and Supply Center Elizabeth City, North Carolina

Aviation Technical Training Center, Elizabeth City, North Carolina

Aircraft Program Office, Grand Prairie, Texas