27-Apr-24 - Coast Guard Air Station (CGAS) Kodiak has retired its MH-65 Dolphin helicopter fleet after 36 years of service in Alaska. The station will now exclusively operate the Sikorsky MH-60T Jayhawk along the HC-130 Hercules #Alaska
16-Apr-24 - Safran signed 5-year Support-By-the-Hour (SBH) contract to provide in-service maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) for more than 240 Arriel 2C2-CG engines that powers the US Coast Guard Airbus MH-65 Dolphin helicopter fleet #Dolphins
22-Oct-23 - Royal Navy’s newest aircraft carrier, HMS Prince of Wales, visits the United States for final enlistment phase in preparation for first global deployment in 2025 #PrinceOfWales
29-Sep-23 - Coast Guard Air Station Detroit received its first upgraded MH-65E Dolphin helicopter to began replacing the MH-65D. Detroit is the 11th of 13 MH-65 Air Stations to receive the upgraded variant #Detroit
15-Jun-23 - US Coast Guard Air Station Atlantic City established in 1998 after Brooklyn and Cape May stations merged. The southern New Jersey-based helicopter crews have flown over 7,000 search and rescue missions having accumulated more than 180,000 flight hours #AtlanticCity
12-Apr-23 - US Coast Guard’s MH-60 Jayhawk and MH-65 Dolphin helicopters will be upgraded with Honeywell’s IntuVue RDR-7000 weather radar system #Weather
14-Feb-22 - Teledyne FLIR Defense awarded $43.9M indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract to service electro-optical sensor systems used for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) by US Navy, Marines and Coast Guard #ISR
10-Jul-21 - Black Hawk crews from 1st Assault Helicopter Battalion, 140th Aviation Regiment (1-140th) California Army National Guard trained in water rescue operations with a US Coast Guard MH-65 Dolphin helicopter #WaterRescue
07-Jan-21 - The US Coast Guard completed the 14th MH-65E conversion with the delivery of 3 helicopters to Air Station Port Angeles, WA and one to Aviation Training Center Mobile, AL. All 98 Dolphins scheduled to be upgraded by the end of 2024 #MH65E
19-Sep-20 - U.S. Coast Guard Air Station at Humboldt Bay, California to receive maintenance platforms from SAFE Structure Designs for the MH-65 Dolphin helicopters #platforms
24-Dec-19 - In honor of Native American Heritage Awareness, Coast Guard Sector North Bend adorned their MH-65 Dolphin helicopters with artwork modeled after cultural references from the confederation of local tribal nations #SpiritOfOregon
01-Mar-18 - By the end of 2019, US Coast Guard Dolphin fleet to start getting upgraded to MH-65E type with a new avionics CAAS architecture from Rockwell Collins similar as of the MH-60T
12-Sep-17 - S.A.F.E Structure Designs awarded the contract to design, engineer, and manufacture custom maintenance platforms for the US Coast Guard’s fleet of MH-65’s in Elizabeth City, NC
