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MINNESOTA -- Former Tuskegee Airman and friend of the Civil Air Patrol, retired U.S. Air Force Col. Kenneth Wofford died Sunday at his home in Golden Valley. Wofford was a friend of the Anoka Composite Squadron and frequently was called upon to share the story of the Tuskegee Airmen. He...

NEBRASKA Fall is a busy time for twin brothers Jacob and Kyle Schuelke. The Waverly High School sophomores spend a lot of their school days on the football field but they also have to hustle to their Civil Air Patrol meetings, where they participate in many activities, including search and...

WISCONSIN Civil Air Patrol's Wisconsin Wing is featured in the Atlantic Flyer, a Voice of the General Aviation Community newspaper based in Guilford, Conn. Touted as A Wing Of Excellence, the Atlantic Flyer article written by 1st Lts. Terese Barta and Jeri Gonwa and Senior Member Connie Lichtenwald, focuses on...

VERMONT The Civil Air Patrol is on alert in Vermont for possible evacuation of its air assets to safe haven locations should Hurricane Earl reach northern New England during the upcoming Labor Day weekend. In addition to the Vermont Wing, CAP wings all along the East Coast from the Carolinas...

VIRGINIA With the CyberPatriot III registration deadline of Oct. 8 approaching, the Air Force Association reports that more than 300 teams from 45 states have already organized for the nations premier high school cyber defense competition. Teams have registered from public, private, parochial, and home schools in many states in...

MICHIGAN Cadet Senior Master Sgt. Dillon Duquette of Grand Blanc is one of a number of Civil Air Patrol cadets who have flown solo as 16-year-olds. But before doing that, this aspiring pilot a member of the Michigan Wings Major Joe Koch Memorial Cadet Squadron in Columbiaville had to his...

SOUTH CAROLINA A CAP color guards flag-raising ceremony today will officially kick off the grand opening of the Runway Caf at the Greenville Downtown Airport. Our cadets range from 12 to 18 years old, who have an interest in aviation and search and rescue operations as well as a tremendous...

WEST VIRGINIA Civil Air Patrols West Virginia Wing recently completed its annual cadet summer encampment at Camp Dawson, an Army National Guard training facility in Kingwood. The weeklong event is held each year in order to give the CAP cadets a greater understanding of CAP and its Air Force missions...

VIRGINIA -- A Monticello Composite Squadron cadet is realizing his dream through a career-oriented National Cadet Special Activity Advanced Pararescue Jumper Orientation Course at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Arizona. Click here to learn more about Cadet Tech Sgt. Sean Connolly's experience. He was one of 18 CAP cadets to...

TEXAS -- Civil Air Patrol has found the crash site of a private plane belonging to one of its members, Charles Miller of Georgetown. The wreckage was spotted by a CAP aircrew Monday afternoon not far from the El Dorado, Ark., airport where Miller was last seen on Thursday, refueling...

LOUISIANA -- A Ball teenager has his head in the clouds -- and that's a good thing for someone very interested in aviation. Civil Air Patrol Cadet Lt. Col. Barry James, 19, of Ball recently returned from visiting the United Kingdom where he received the best flying experience I could...

ARLINGTON, Va. The registration deadline is looming to participate in the nations premier high school cyber defense competition, CyberPatriot III. The registration deadline is Oct. 8 and all Civil Air Patrol units are eligible to register teams in the one-of-a-kind national cyber security competitions All Service Division. Check out the...

PENNSYLVANIA -- Civil Air Patrol and nine local agencies held three training exercises in Somerset County to assist in emergency response efforts and enhance multi-agency cooperation. The simulated search-and-rescue scenarios included a missing elderly woman from Laurel View Village retirement community and an airplane crash with three passengers on-board. Those...

INDIANA Sixty-eight cadets, accompanied by more than 40 staff members, participated in the Indiana Wing Summer 2010 Encampment at Camp Atterbury July 31-Aug. 7. The encampment program is designed to mentor young CAP cadets to give them a positive outlet to learn about aviation and military customs and give them...

HAWAII Members from Civil Air Patrol's Lyman Field Composite Squadron in Hiloare bidding aloha to four of its cadets as they soar away to college. Although Cadet Capt. Owen Cooper, Cadet Master Sgt. Paulina Castillo, Cadet Staff Sgt. Kawika Kekaualua and Cadet 2nd Lt. Isaac DeRego are headed to different...