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Homeland Security

Coast Guard Retires HU-25 Surveillance Aircraft

By Cal Biesecker

Tuesday, September 23rd, 2014

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Coast Guard Retires HU-25 Surveillance Aircraft

Coast Guard HU-25 Guardian surveillance aircraft. Photo: Coast Guard

The Coast Guard on Tuesday retired the last of its HU-25 Guardian fixed-wing surveillance aircraft, which entered service in 1982 and 1983 to perform a range of missions. The HU-25, based on France’s Dassault Aviation’s Falcon 20 business jet, was used for search and rescue, migrant and drug interdiction and other law enforcement missions, marine environmental protection, and military readiness. The aircraft are being replaced by the HC-144A Ocean Sentry maritime patrol aircraft, which are supplied by a division of…

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