General Aviation Security

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General Aviation Security Resources

GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS WITH AVIATION SECURITY RESOURCES

In the late 1930s, more than 150,000 civil air patrol volunteers with a love for aviation argued for an organization to put their planes and flying skills to use in defense of their country. After much pressure, the Civil Air Patrol was born one week prior to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. Thousands of volunteer members answered America’s call to national service and sacrifice by accepting and performing critical volunteer wartime missions. Assigned to the War Department under the jurisdiction of the Army Air Corps, the Civil Air Patrol logged more than 500,000 flying hours, sank two enemy submarines, and saved hundreds of crash victims during ...