The first aircraft on the scene during the Alaska Ranger rescue was the HH-60 Jayhawk, a medium-range recovery helicopter made by Sikorsky, a variant of the Blackhawk used by the Army. Here, Lt ...

The rugged and reliable Sikorsky HH-60 Jayhawk, here in a demonstration near Yorktown, Virginia, is the Coast Guard’s only medium-range search-and-rescue helicopter. It can loiter over a target ...

The first CG MH-60 Jayhawk to arrive on scene hoisted five people whereas a second helicopter rescued nine people. All the survivors were taken to Coast Guard Air Station Elizabeth City, N.C ...

NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — On Monday, the Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans received its first MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter. According to the USCG, it’s the first of three helicopters.

A United States Coastguard HH-60 Jayhawk helicopter lands onboard HMS Queen Elizabeth off the East coast of the United States, further expanding the carrier's capability and interoperability with US ...

It’s the sixth special colored Jayhawk serving with the USCG. A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter with a yellow paint scheme lands at Coast Guard Air Station Astoria, Ore., Jan. 15, 2016.

According to an initial Facebook post from the Coast Guard, the HH-60 Jayhawk crashed at about 10:40 p.m. Monday on Read Island in Farragut Bay, about 22 miles northwest of Petersburg.

Those engines would be installed into AH-64 Apache and UH-60 and HH-60 Black Hawk helicopters by 2023. -- Michael Hoffman can be reached at mike.hoffman@military.com Related Video ...

SUPPORT SERVICES: Sikorsky Aerospace Services signed $687,000 in contracts to provide the U.S. Coast Guard with scheduled maintenance help for their HH-60J medium-range Jayhawk helicopters.

The Black Hawk has been modified for use by other branches of the military. The Navy uses the SH-60, known as the Sea Hawk, the Air Force the MH-60 Pave Hawk and the Coast Guard the HH-60 Jayhawk.