Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City

Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City
Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City
CGAS AC.jpg
Unit Unit Patch CGAS Atlantic City
Active 1998-Present
Country United States
Branch United States Coast Guard
Type Air Station
Role To patrol the Mid Atlantic coast from Connecticut to Virginia
Aircraft flown
Helicopter 10 HH-65C Dolphin

Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City is a United States Coast Guard Air Station located 9 miles northwest of Atlantic City at the Atlantic City International Airport in Egg Harbor Township, New Jersey. It is the northernmost, largest air station within the Coast Guard Fifth District.[1]

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Operations and missions

HH-65C and crew offshore of Atlantic City, NJ

Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City (CGAS) located at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) William J Hughes Technical Center at the Atlantic City International Airport is one of two air stations in the Fifth Coast Guard District.

Air Station Atlantic City consists of 10 MH-65D helicopters and maintains two Dolphin helicopters in 30-minute response status. Approximately, 250 aviation personnel are staffed at the facility in addition of Coast Guard Reserves and Auxiliary that augments its Active Duty forces.

CGAS Atlantic City mission supports a wide range of Coast Guard operations such as search and rescue (SAR), Maritime Law enforcement, port security, Aids to Navigation support and Marine Environmental Protection for both District One and District Five, which includes the coastlines of Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia as well as protecting the interior bays and rivers such as the Chesapeake, Delaware, Hudson and Long Island Sound.

CGAS Atlantic City also provides aircrews and aircraft to the Washington, D.C. area as part of Operation Noble Eagle, a Department of Defense (NORAD) mission to protect the airspace around the nation's capital. [2]

History

CGAS Atlantic City was opened on May 18, 1998. The facility is the newest and largest single airframe unit of the Coast Guard's Air Stations and is a product of merging Air Station Brooklyn, NY and Group Air Station Cape May, NJ into one unit.

Group Air Station Atlantic City provides mission support services to Atlantic coastal regions from Connecticut to Virginia. Air Station Brooklyn and Air Station Cape May's operational responsibilities overlapped in the region, and so the United States Coast Guard decided that the same level of coverage would be maintained by consolidating both air stations into one facility.

The first life-saving stations along the New Jersey coastline were built in 1849 in response to a deadly string of shipping accidents. The term "Group" was in reference to life saving stations from Barnegat, New Jersey to Cape May, New Jersey. In 1969 Cape May became a Group Air Station when three helicopters were stationed there under command of Group Commander. Originally organized into two separate group offices based in Atlantic City and Cape May, these two command structures were combined in 1982. [3]

Geographic location

Atlantic City International Airport is located at 39° 27′ 27″ N, 74° 34′ 38″ W [4]

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Coordinates: 39°27′27″N 74°34′38″W / 39.4575°N 74.57722°W / 39.4575; -74.57722


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