The Coast Guard on Saturday evacuated a passenger on a cruise 300 miles offshore from Alabama. Video showed the first helicopter that was sent had to abort the rescue due to severe weather.

The MH-60T, meanwhile, is a Sikorsky model, a similar recovery helicopter that boasts a better ... The United States Coast Guard has a greater variety of airplanes: Its inventory lists 57 ...

A Coast Guard helicopter pilot received the Distinguished Flying Cross this month for his work commanding an hours-long rescue operation in late 2023 to save four people stranded at a canyon.

But with the Coast Guard’s helicopter air wing already stretched ... As Sikorsky’s long-held engineering models get tested by the Coast Guard’s unprecedented operational flight hour ...

The United States Coast Guard has been using the MH-65 Dolphin since 1984, and the helicopter has been through several iterations. For instance, later models were outfitted with a hi-tech heads-up ...

As part of that change, the Coast Guard’s current fleet of Sikorsky S92A helicopters is being replaced with the more modern Leonardo AW189. The first such helicopter recently became operational ...