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Civil Air Patrol’s Aerospace Education directorate is launching the third annual National High-Altitude Balloon Challenge for cadets, with team registration open through May 22.Begun as the first national cadet STEM competition in 2021, the balloon c...

After a distinguished 35-year career in the U.S. Air Force, the first three-star general to officially fly with Civil Air Patrol is retiring.Lt. Gen. Kirk Pierce will step down March 31 from his post as commander, Continental U.S. North American Aero...

 Ninety-one scholarships totaling $155,000 have been awarded to Civil Air Patrol cadets from 32 wings and one overseas unit.The total includes 63 academic scholarships worth $123,500 and 28 flight scholarships worth $31,500.Cadets in the Southeast Re...

Jane Davies, a first-generation American, wasn’t accustomed to the word “can’t.”But as a freshman engineering major at the University of Connecticut’s Waterbury campus, the glass ceiling crashed hard, thanks to one pontificating professor.“On the fir...

Three cadets having lunch at a Cupertino, California, restaurant  sprang into action to save a choking elderly woman’s life March 4.Cadet Capt. Samhita Srivatsan, Cadet 2nd Lt. Esme Chen, and Cadet Tech. Sgt. Maxim Manokhin, all members of the Califo...

For Women's History Month, Civil Air Patrol honors Willa Beatrice Brown, an early member of both CAP and "the Ninety-Nines.” Established in 1929 by 99 women pilots, Ninety-Nines Inc., International Organization of Women Pilots, promotes advancement o...

Six cadets from the New Jersey Wing’s Maj. Thomas B. McGuire Composite Squadron will compete April 20-22 in the Air & Space Force Association’s StellarXplorers IX Space STEM program national finals.The team  is one of 10 to reach the championship com...

Capacity: threeLength: 33 feet   Maximum speed: 128 mphCruise speed: 105 mphRange: 650 milesService ceiling: 14,500 feetCivil Air Patrol flew NC7471 as part of its wartime Southern Liaison Patrol, which monitored the U.S. border with Mexico to circum...

The California Wing’s Fullerton Composite Squadron 56 has reached the CyberPatriot National Youth Cyber Defense Competition finals for the third straight year and the fifth time in six years, joined by a pair of first-time finalists from the Idaho Wi...

Born and raised in the District of Columbia, Col. Richard J. Cooper Jr. can look back on a lifetime of contributing to his local community and Civil Air Patrol’s National Capital Wing. He’s focused on giving back as a volunteer by helping provide you...

Cadets from the Florida, Kentucky, Minnesota, and Washington wings recently earned their private pilot certificates through the Civil Air Patrol Youth Aviation Initiative's Cadet Wings program.   ...

Female flying will be the focus from Feb. 23-25 at Civil Air Patrol partner Women in Aviation International’s national convention in California. Several CAP National Headquarters staff members will exhibit at and attend the conference at Long Beach C...

Kinner “Sportster B”, NC14201Capacity: 2Length: 24 feet 2 inchesMaximum speed: 112 mphCruise speed: 98 mphRange: 440 milesService ceiling: 15,000 feetBuilt in 1934 by the Kinner Airplane & Motor Corp. in Glendale, California, the “Sportster B” offere...

Civil Air Patrol is participating for the 22rd straight year in an exercise to help the U.S. Air Force ensure the safety and security of airspace around Super Bowl LVII, set for Feb. 12 at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, Arizona.To help Air Force fig...

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.

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 exe...

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 ou...

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 ...

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 biplane with the 170-hp Curtiss “Chall...

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 marke...

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 w...

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...

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 i...

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 i...

“Courage” is an overworked noun that lazy sportscasters and “happy talk” TV morning news anchors have beaten into submission to the point that it doesn’t effectively conjure the fortitude that wells inside some people — people like Cadet 1st Lt. Ally...

Civil Air Patrol’s Cadet Wings program is moving onward and upward at full throttle.The ceiling seems unlimited for the U.S. Air Force-funded program, which helps cadets of every gender, race, economic, or ethnic background earn their private pilot c...

Rearwin Sportster 9000-L NC18089Capacity: twoLength: 22 feet 3 inchesMaximum speed: 118 mphCruise speed: 108 mphRange: 490 mi;esService ceiling: 15,000 feetThe Rearwin Sportster models 8500 and beyond were light, high-winged cabin monoplanes with tan...

The  Hawaii Wing flew a U.S. Geological Survey volcanologist over newly erupted Mauna Loa early Nov. 28 while also providing photos of lava flows and other activity stemming from the first eruption of the world’s largest active volcano since 1984. Fi...

Civil Air Patrol members have accounted for all three individual awards from the International Association of Emergency Managers, which recognized the threesome's roles in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, tornadoes, floods, winter storms, and other...

No one looking up into the sky near Phoenix could see it happening when two F-16 fighter jets from the Western Air Defense Sector were scrambled to intercept three aircraft attempting to enter a Temporary Flight Restriction area.Visible from the grou...