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HC-144A Ocean Sentry USGC. (Photo: AIRBUS Military)

An HC-144A Ocean Sentry, medium-range surveillance aircraft, arrives for the first time in Washington, D.C. at Coast Guard Air Station Washington. The HC-144A, the official designation issued by the Air Force, is a transport and surveillance, fixed-wing aircraft that will be used to perform search and rescue missions, enforce laws and treaties including illegal drug interdiction, marine environmental protection, military readiness, and International Ice Patrol missions, as well as cargo and personnel transport. It can perform aerial delivery of search and rescue equipment such as rafts, pumps, and flares, and it can be used for on scene command and control. (Photo: USCG photo by PAC Sarah B. Foster)

An HC-144A Ocean Sentry, medium-range surveillance aircraft, arrives for the first time in Washington, D.C. at Coast Guard Air Station Washington. The HC-144A, the official designation issued by the Air Force, is a transport and surveillance, fixed-wing aircraft that will be used to perform search and rescue missions, enforce laws and treaties including illegal drug interdiction, marine environmental protection, military readiness, and International Ice Patrol missions, as well as cargo and personnel transport. It can perform aerial delivery of search and rescue equipment such as rafts, pumps, and flares, and it can be used for on scene command and control. (Photo: USCG photo by PAC Sarah B. Foster)

Coast Guard accepts the HC-144A Ocean Sentry, medium-range surveillance aircraft. The HC-144A, the official designation issued by the Air Force, is a transport and surveillance, fixed-wing aircraft that will be used to perform search and rescue missions, enforce laws and treaties including illegal drug interdiction, marine environmental protection, military readiness, and International Ice Patrol missions, as well as cargo and personnel transport. It can perform aerial delivery of search and rescue equipment such as rafts, pumps, and flares, and it can be used for on scene command and control. (Photo courtesy of ICGS)

Casa in flight : A Coast Guard HC144 Ocean Sentry, passes the Wright Brothers Memorial at Kil Devil Hills, N. C. HC-144A, is the first all-new aircraft delivered to the Coast Guard as part of the Coast Guard’s progressive modernization and recapitalization of aging legacy assets. The aircraft’s design allows it to be reconfigured for a variety of missions, while retaining at least minimum functionality with the aircraft’s sensors.. Its rear ramp allows for easy roll-on and roll-off of provisions. The aircraft also can be quickly reconfigured for such missions as medical evacuation and the transport of passengers and time-sensitive supplies. (Photo: USCG Photo/ Dave Silva)

U. S. Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Strafford G. Taylor, an aviation maintenance technician with Coast Guard Aviation Training Center, Mobile, Ala., inspects the wing de-ice system of a Coast Guard HC-144A Ocean Sentry aircraft, Nov. 10, 2009. The aircraft and crew were diverted to Houston in preparation for Hurricane Ida Nov. 9, 2009. (Photo: U. S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Casey J. Ranel)

U. S. Coast Guard Petty Officer 3rd Class Strafford G. Taylor, an aviation maintenance technician with Coast Guard Aviation Training Center, Mobile, Ala., inspects the wing de-ice system of a Coast Guard HC-144A Ocean Sentry aircraft, Nov. 10, 2009. The aircraft and crew were diverted to Houston in preparation for Hurricane Ida Nov. 9, 2009. (Photo: U. S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 3rd Class Casey J. Ranel)

A Coast Guard HC-144A Ocean Sentry aircraft from Coast Guard Aviation Training Center, Mobile, Ala., arrived Saturday, July 11, 2010, at Fort Lauderdale Executive Airport, Fort Lauderdale, carrying 45 brown pelican chicks. The pelicans, ranging in age from 5-to-10 weeks old, had been impacted in the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill and previously cared for at Fort Jackson Bird Rehabilitation Center in Buras, La. The chicks were transported to Pelican Harbor Seabird Station in Miami where they will remain until they can fly and be released into the wild. (Photo: U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer 1st Class Krystyna Hannum)