442 Transport and Rescue Squadron
442 Transport and Rescue Squadron (French: 442e Escadron de transport et de sauvetage) is a Royal Canadian Air Force tactical transport and search and rescue unit based at Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Comox in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The squadron flies six De Havilland Canada CC-115 Buffalo STOL aircraft and five AgustaWestland CH-149 Cormorant rescue helicopters. One of each is on constant readiness to deploy in response to distress calls in the Victoria Search and Rescue Region, which includes most of British Columbia and the territory of Yukon as well as 560,000 square kilometres in the Pacific Ocean, up to 600 nm offshore. The squadron also serves as the Operational Training Unit for the CH-149 Cormorant helicopter and the CC-115 Buffalo airplane.
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442 Transport and Rescue Squadron
442 Transport and Rescue Squadron (French: 442e Escadron de transport et de sauvetage) is a Royal Canadian Air Force tactical transport and search and rescue unit based at Canadian Forces Base (CFB) Comox in the Canadian province of British Columbia. The squadron flies six De Havilland Canada CC-115 Buffalo STOL aircraft and five AgustaWestland CH-149 Cormorant rescue helicopters. One of each is on constant readiness to deploy in response to distress calls in the Victoria Search and Rescue Region, which includes most of British Columbia and the territory of Yukon as well as 560,000 square kilometres in the Pacific Ocean, up to 600 nm offshore. The squadron also serves as the Operational Training Unit for the CH-149 Cormorant helicopter and the CC-115 Buffalo airplane.
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442 Transport and Rescue Squad ...... d the CC-115 Buffalo airplane.
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Le 442e escadron de transport ...... vetage des Forces canadiennes.
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Un Dieu, une reine, un coeur
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De Havilland Canada CC-115 Buffalo and AgustaWestland CH-149 Cormorant
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Arnhem
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Normandy, 1944
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Lieutenant-Colonel Rhonda Stevens
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Un Dieu, une reine, un coeur
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Tactical transport, search and rescue
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442 Transport and Rescue Squad ...... d the CC-115 Buffalo airplane.
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442e escadron de transport et sauvetage
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