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Early COAST GUARD AVIATION

The Coast Guard was quick to foresee the merits of seaplanes in the search and rescue role

The Coast Guard shall, while carrying out its law enforcement and other duties, render all practicable assistance to any person or thing that lies within its sphere of action and shall give aid and comfort whenever it can reasonably do so. Headquarters Circular No. 126, 16 October 1936

The Coast Guard was introduced to aviation in 1903 when the surfmen from the Kill Devil Hill Lifeboat Station in North Carolina helped carry the fragile Wright Flyer from its shelter to the launch site on 17 December. Surfman J.T. Daniels took the only photograph of the event using the Wright brothers' camera.

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