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Fixed Wing

A/C Designation Name Year Num Comments Pix Model
Douglas
RD-1/2/3/4
Dolphin 1932 – 1943 1/1/1/10 Backbone of SAR aviation with the Hall PH-2/3s
Could carry 6 passengers/survivors
3 aircraft were named:
Procyon, Adhara, Sirius
CGH Yes
Consolidated
N4Y-1
(Model 21A)
(aka: PT-11)
1932 – 1941 1 CGH
General Aviation
PJ-1/2
Flying Lifeboat 1932 – 1941 5/1 Fokker – General Aviation – North American CGAA
Wiki
Yes
Grumman
JF-2/J2F-5/6
Duck 1934 – 1947 14 True aviation classic
The Jeep of the air
It did everything and did it well
CG used them aboard cutters
CGH Yes
Hall
PH-2/3
1934 – 1944 7/7 Backbone of SAR aviation with the Douglas RDs CGH
Lockheed
R30-1
(Lockheed Model 10)
Electra 1936 – 1945 1 CGH Yes
Curtiss
SOC-4
Seagull 1938 – 1942 3 Used with floats on 327s
Removed from 327s in 1940
Shore based
CGH Yes
Grumman
JRF-2/3/5
(Grumman Model G-21)
Goose 1939 – 1954 34 CGH Yes
Lockheed
R50/-4/5
(Lockheed Model 18)
Lodestar 1940 – 1953 1/4 The single -4 was an executive transport
The -5 were logistics iarcraft
CGH Yes
Grumman
J4F-1/2
(Grumman Model G-44)
Widgeon 1941 – 1954 25 CGH Yes
Consolidated
PBY-5
(aka: OA-10)
Catalina 1941 – 1954 1 CGH Yes
Naval Aircraft Factory
N3N-3
Yellow Peril 1940 – 1944 4 CGH Yes
Consolidated
PBY-5A
(aka: OA-10)
Catalina 1942 – 1954 120 CGH Yes
Vought
OS2U
Kingfisher 1942 – 1944 53 CGH Yes
Vultee
SNV-1
(aka: BT-13, BT-15)
Valiant 1942 – 1945 2 Vacuform – Sold as Vultee Valiant BT-13 CGH Yes
Beech
JRB-4/5
(Beech Model 18)
(aka: C-45, AT-7,
AT-11,F-2,
SNB)
Expeditor 1943 – 1956 7 CGH Yes
Curtiss
R5C-1
(aka: C-46)
Commando 1943 – 1950 10 CGH Yes
Curtiss
SO3C-1/3
Seamew 1943 – 1945 48 Shore based CGAA Yes
Douglas
R4D-5
(aka: C-47, C-53, DC-3)
Skytrain
(Gooney Bird)
1943 – 1961 11 CGH Yes
Martin
PBM-3/5
Mariner 1943 – 1956 27/36 CGH Yes
Stearman
N2S-3
(Stearman Model 75)
(aka: PT-13, PT-17,
PT-18, PT-27)
Kaydet 1943 – 1947 11 Trainers Yes
Consolidated
PB2Y-3/5
Coronado 1944 – 1946 4 CGH Yes
Consolidated
PB4Y-1G
(aka: B-24, P4Y-2G)
Liberator 1944 – 1947 5 CGH Yes
Howard
(GH-2/3
(Howard Model DGA-15)
Nightingale 1944 – 1945 2 CGH Yes
North American
SNJ
(aka: T-6, BC-1, AT-16,
A-27, Harvard)
Texan 1944 – 1948 15 CGH Yes