Alenia HC-27J Spartan #1
by Arthur Eggers
Title
Alenia HC-27J Spartan #1
Artist
Arthur Eggers
Medium
Digital Art - Color Print
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Air Station Sacramento is the Coast Guard's only base of operations for fixed-wing aircraft on the Pacific Coast of the contiguous United States. Commissioned on the fifth of September 1978, it is located at the north end of McClellan Airfield. In 2016, Air Station Sacramento began operating the HC-27J Spartan, the first operational Coast Guard unit to do so. Under the 2014 National Defense Authorization Act, 14 C-27Js were transferred from the U.S. Air Force to the Coast Guard. Since then, the Coast Guard has been working to restore these aircraft to bring them out of long-term storage and modify them to enhance the aircraft’s current capability to detect, classify and identify maritime targets. Throughout its history, Air Station Sacramento has participated in a wide range of Coast Guard missions. Primary among them and perhaps most widely known is Search and Rescue. The Alenia C-27J Spartan is a military transport aircraft developed and manufactured by Leonardo's Aircraft Division (formerly Alenia Aermacchi until 2016). In addition to the standard transport configuration, specialized variants of the C-27J have been developed for maritime patrol, search and rescue, C3 ISR (command, control, communications, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance), fire support and electronic warfare and ground-attack missions.
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January 22nd, 2018
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