On behalf of the U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary, and the Officers and members of Air Station Republic 12-07, I welcome you to our official website. I hope that you will find it informative and useful.

As Auxiliary aviators, our primary objective is to support the US Coast Guard in its many and varied missions by conducting airborne patrols in and around the metropolitan New York and southern New England areas. Our operations include homeland security, boating safety, search and rescue and winter ice patrols. These patrols are flown by qualified and trained civilian volunteer pilots and air observers under official orders from the Coast Guard.

As part of the aviation capability of the Coast Guard Auxiliary’s 1st District Southern Region, we participate in airborne patrols that are scheduled seven days a week, 365 days a year. These include regular patrols over New York Harbor, the Hudson River to Burlington VT, the coastal perimeter of the Long Island Sound and the south shore of Long Island out to Block Island RI.

In addition to our flying activities, we are focused on and participate in serving the needs of our Republic Airport community and our own Auxiliary membership. This includes monthly meetings with guest speakers, regular Auxiliary educational and training opportunities, airport open houses, social events and special activities such as high school career days and community blood drives. Additionally, we also engage in public education opportunities as well as performing vessel safety inspections and recreational boating safety visits to disseminate information to the boating public on how to be safe on the water so as to not need the services of the coast Guard and it Auxiliary in a Search and Rescue situation. These as well as other benevolent missions are performed by members of this Flotilla on Coast Guard bases as well as within the communities in which we live and are based.

We invite you to join us in serving the needs of your fellow citizens, your community and the United States Coast Guard. Please feel free to attend any of our regular monthly meetings which are held at Republic Airport in Farmingdale, NY off of Route 110 generally on the second Thursday of each month at 8:00pm unless a scheduled holiday dictates otherwise.

Sincerely,

David G. Porter, Flotilla Commander

(For more details, contact our Public Affairs Officer and Vice Flotilla Commander Bill Delgado)