SDWG to Perform Search and Disaster Relief
Training in Northern Black Hills
South Dakota Wing of Civil Air Patrol (CAP) will conduct a search training exercise in Spearfish Saturday, May 21. Members from around the state will converge on Black Hills Airport at Clyde Ice Field for the day-long event. (Read more)
South Dakota Wing Assists
F-16 Crash Investigation
South Dakota Wing, Civil Air Patrol, flew an airborne photography mission for the South Dakota Air National Guard's 114th Fighter Wing on Thursday, May 12. The aircrew photographed the scene where an F-16 assigned to the South Dakota Air National Guard’s 114th Fighter Wing went off the end of a runway. (Read more)
Dobbes Assumes Command of
Crazy Horse Composite Squadron
Lt. Charles Dobbes became commander of Crazy Horse Composite Squadron last evening, May 19. Col. Michael Marek, SDWG commander, officiated. Dobbes succeeds Capt. Donny Weiand, whose term as commander expired. (Read more)
SDWG Recruits at
Home School Conference
Sioux Falls Composite Squadron and Lincoln County Composite Squadron represented South Dakota Wing at the Christian Homeschool Conference in Sioux Fall, May 6-7. (Read more)
Time to Wash Planes
Lt. Col. Justin Johnson, South Dakota Wing aircraft maintenance officer, reminds squadrons that this is the time of year to wash airplanes. (Read more)
COMMANDER'S COLUMN
The May 21 SAREX in Spearfish is tomorrow, as we sent this issue of Skychaser. I am very much looking forward to this “come-all” exercise. (Read more)
UNIT NEWS
Rushmore Helps Other CAP Units
with Cold Weather Uniform Gear
Rushmore Composite Squadron received 30 large boxes of cold-weather gear from Ellsworth AFB recently and is providing some of them to other units in three states. (Read more)
Non-Mission ELT Find
Two CAP Pilots, 2nd Lt. Thor Bardon and 1st Lt. Kyle Clement, were flying a sortie and they heard an Emergency Locator Transmitter (ELT) going off as they were returning to the Sioux Falls Airport. They tracked it to the Lincoln County Airport in Tea, SD. (Read more)
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