Cadets from the Louisiana, Missouri, Texas, and Washington wings recently earned their private pilot certificate through the Civil Air Patrol Youth Aviation Initiative’s Cadet Wings program.Cadet Capt. Kane Deterding of the Texas Wing’s Sulphur Springs...
A longtime Civil Air Patrol member with nearly three decades of National Headquarters experience has been chosen as CAP’s new chief operating officer.The Board of Governors has named John W. Desmarais Sr., CAP’s director of operations, to the top executive post at...
Dr. Elizabeth Medina, Civil Air Patrol’s new chief diversity officer, strongly believes the work of diversity, education, and inclusion – DEI – “is a journey, not a destination, and if we are doing it right, we are going to be doing it the rest of our lives.”In...
Some hear it as a calling, the irresistible, undeniable tug toward a higher purpose. Still others sense “a still, small voice” to make a difference in the world, whether in their neighborhood or across the globe. No matter the term, Civil Air Patrol Maj. Tim Bagnell...
Travel Air C-4000, NC389MCapacity: 3Length: 24 feet 6 inchesMaximum speed: 124 mphCruise speed: 105 mphRange: 630 milesService ceiling: 13,000 feetModel C-4000 was the compatible mating of the popular Travel Air...
Talk about a red-letter month for aviation.December, of course, marks the founding of Civil Air Patrol. The birth of powered flight occurred Dec. 17, 1903, on a frigid windswept North Carolina dune thanks to the Wright brothers. Fifty years ago marked the successful...
For 38 years, a group of pilots in the Southwest has supported a special holiday delivery to members of the Navajo Nation, flying donated items to be distributed during the holidays. This year was different, as Navajo Christmas Airlift participants with the Arizona...
Civil Air Patrol’s National Cell Phone Forensics team guided searchers Dec. 12 to a missing 72-year-old hiker who couldn’t find her way back to her car as darkness began falling in Montrose County, Colorado. The CAP team responded after the Air Force Rescue...
Lt. Col. Carlos Zendejas, a Civil Air Patrol member since 2015 and a longtime leader in the aviation community, is the newest member of the CAP Foundation board of trustees.Zendejas said he’s “truly humbled” to be selected as a board member. “CAP is a...
Dec. 13 marked the 1,000th day of Operation Pulse Lift, Civil Air Patrol’s humanitarian blood-donation mission launched to assist the American Red Cross in response to the COVID-19 pandemic.“This mission is the largest and longest lifesaving effort in CAP’s 81-year...
