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Civil Air Patrol

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noun

  1. a voluntary organization performing emergency services, as assisting the U.S. Air Force on search missions, and offering aerospace-education and youth programs: founded 1941. CAP


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Previously, in November 2020, a Cessna crashed in a residential area near the airport’s runway, killing a Civil Air Patrol pilot.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 16, 2026

Flyovers by the Civil Air Patrol found 1,692 structures destroyed — almost all of them residential.

From Washington Times • Aug. 12, 2023

Colonel Peter Bowden, commander of the Ohio Wing, wrote on Facebook that Rowe had "touched the lives of thousands of his fellow Civil Air Patrol members".

From BBC • Nov. 14, 2022

Isabel Briggs Myers had by then volunteered as an aircraft spotter for the Civil Air Patrol and as a nurse with the Red Cross.

From New York Times • Oct. 14, 2022

July 11, 1947, from ____ who is in charge of the Civil Air Patrol of Wisconsin, an auxiliary of the Army Air Forces.

From Federal Bureau of Investigation FOIA Documents - Unidentified Flying Objects by United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation

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