
The US Coast Guard evaluated the Sikorsky S-62A prototype N880 during 1959-1960. It was sufficiently impressed with the S-62s performance over the HO4S-3G/HH-19G that it ordered 99 to fulfill its short range SAR requirement. Intitially designated HU2S-1G Seaguard, it was re-designated as the HH-52A Seaguard in October 1962. Deliveries commenced in 1963 and were completed in 1967 along side its larger stablemate, the Sikorsky S-61R/HH-3F Pelican long-range SAR helicopter.

The HH-52 saved over 15,000 lives in its twenty-five years of service with the United States Coast Guard.
They were replaced by the Dolphin
They were replaced by the Dolphin
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USCG Memorial Service for 1964 Helicopter Crash
22-Dec-20 - U.S. Coast Guard to honor the crew and passengers of HH-52 Seaguard CG-1363 helicopter crashed December 22, 1964 during a storm in Humboldt Bay, California #memorial
Coast Guard Remembers Crew of HH-52A 1363
22-Dec-15 - The U.S. Coast Guard held a memorial service in remembrance of the HH-52A 1363 helicopter crashed on December 22, 1964 during the North Coast’s “Storm of the Century."
US Coast Guard HH-52A to the Smithsonian Collection
19-Dec-15 - U.S Coast Guard HH-52A Seaguard tail number 1426 will join the Smithsonian Air and Space Collection on permanent display at the Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia Units |
Years | Units | Base |
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1980/86 | CGAS Corpus Christi | NAS Corpus Christi / Truax Field |
1971/73 | CGAS Borinquen | Rafael Hernandez |
1970/84 | CGAS Cape Cod | Otis AFB |
1969/88 | CGAS Chicago | NAS Glenview closed 1995 |
1969/87 | CGAS Cape May | Cape May |
1966/88 | CGAS Detroit | Selfridge airfield |
1965/88 | CGAS Port Angeles | Port Angeles |
1964/73 | CGAS Astoria | Astoria |
1963/87 | CGAS Barbers Point | Kalaeloa Airport / John Rodgers Field |
1963/87 | CGAS Savannah | Hunter Army Airfield |
1963/87 | CGAS Los Angeles | Los Angeles |
1963/84 | CGAS Brooklyn | Floyd Bennett Field / NAS New York |
1963/70 | CGAS Salem | CGAS Salem closed 1970 |
1963/70 | CGAS San Francisco | San Francisco |
CGAS North Bend | Southwest Oregon Regional | |
CGAS Miami | Opa-locka | |
CGAS Houston | Ellington | |
CGAS San Diego | San Diego | |
CGAS Kodiak | Kodiak | |
CGAS St. Petersburg | Albert Whitted | |
??/72 | CGAS Annette | Annette Island |