A Coast Guard HRP “Flying Banana” pictured conducting an exercise with a rescue ladder near Coast Guard Air Station (CGAS) Elizabeth City, North Carolina, in 1954, sixty years ago
An SH-3D Sea King of Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron (HS) 4 pictured tied down on the flight deck of the amphibious assault ship Princeton (LPH 5) during operations in the Pacific Ocean on May 23, 1969, forty-five years ago today.
In a photograph taken on May 19, 1944, seventy years ago today, the pilot of a Coast Guard HNS-1 Hoverfly performs a test landing on a rocking platform simulating a rolling ship deck that was constructed at Coast Guard Air Station (CGAS) Brooklyn, New York.
An SH-3 Sea King of Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron (HS) 8 pictured in a hover over San Diego Bay during a practice rescue on May 16, 1968, forty-six years ago today.
An SH-3 Sea King of Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron (HS) 6 pictured launching a torpedo over the Pacific Ocean during a weapons test on May 13, 1965, forty-nine years ago today.
An HRS-2 of Helicopter Utility Squadron (HU) 1 operates from the flight deck of the carrier Constellation (CVA 64) on May 11, 1963, fifty-one years ago today.
A CH-53E Super Stallion of Helicopter Combat Support Squadron (HC) 4 launches from the amphibious assault ship Saipan (LHA 2) during Operation Dragon Hammer '90 in the Mediterranean Sea in May 1990, twenty-four years ago this month.
An SH-2F Seasprite of Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron (Light) (HSL) 37 pictured while engaged in helicopter in-flight refueling during operations in the Pacific in May 1980, thirty-four years ago this month.
A CH-53E Super Stallion of Helicopter Combat Support Squadron (HC) 4 pictured in flight over the Italian countryside during Dragon Hammer '90 exercises in May 1990, twenty-four years ago this month.
An SH-3D Sea King of Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron (HS) 2 operating from the carrier Enterprise (CVN 65) during operations supporting the evacuation of Saigon, Republic of Vietnam, on April 29, 1975, thirty-nine years ago today.
PACIFIC OCEAN (June 20, 2014) Aviation Machinist's Mate Airman Ryan Rockhold, from Quincy, Ill., assigned to the Black Knights of Helicopter Anti-submarine Squadron (HSC) 4 salutes as a MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopter departs from the aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76). Ronald Reagan is en route to Hawaii for Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2014. Twenty-three nations, more than 40 ships and submarines, more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel are participating in the biennial RIMPAC exercise from June 26 to Aug. 1. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Chelsea Kennedy/Released)