2020-2021 Native American PPE Airlift
From December 2020 to February 2021 in 9 days of operation GA airlift 29, 797 lbs of PPE and food to mulitple locations through out Washington State.
2020-2021 Native American PPE Airlift
The below button will take you to a King 5 News article on this effort.
2020-2021 Native American PPE Airlift.
The below button will take you to a local news story at the Walla Walla site for this effort.
2020-2021 Native American PPE Airlift.
The below link will take you to an Everett Herald article on this effort.
October 5th EVAC flew FEMA Donated Masks
The below button will take you to the write up of a huge first for GA on the west coast.
Sep 12th DART Exercise Flight Point Roberts
The week after the com's part of the 2020 DART/WCGARP exercise, food was flown to Point Roberts in Whatcom County which was truly isolated due to the pandemic.
Sept 12 DART Exercise
On Sept 12th a very successful DART exercise occurred where we had two way exchange of information between the west side of Washington State and the east side of it which has not happened before while also accomplishing a food drive as a part of the drill.
AOPA Story On First Use Of WCGARP
May 2020 was a historic moment for WCGARP as PPE was flown to rural communities and 3500 face shields were dropped to a rural county from out of state by two different GA groups. Below is the story.
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Sept 21 DART Food Airlift WA
On September 21, 2019 DART's in Whatcom, Clallam, Jefferson, Kitsap, Walla Walla and one in California delivered over 5,000 lb's to Jefferson County's food banks. This is the video of that drill.
Sept 21 DART Food Airlift WA
On September 21, 2019 DART's in Whatcom, Clallam, Jefferson, Kitsap, Walla Walla and one in California delivered over 5,000 lb's to Jefferson County's food banks. This is the video of that drill.
Sept 21 DART Food Airlift WA
AOPA Article
April 2019 Land based and water based aviation worked in support of each other to move supplies over the Cascade Range
Video April Drill 2019
April 2019 Land based and water based aviation worked in support of each other to move supplies over the Cascade Range
Video April Drill 2018
In 2018 multiple counties emergency resource came together with pilots to further develop the use of water born aviation in response to a catastrophic disaster.
Video Jefferson Drill 2017
In 2017 the first ocean based exercise occurred in the state of Washington to further develop seaplanes as a key response resource in the aftermath of the Cascadia Subduction Zone Earthquake.
Video July 2018 Forks Drill
In July 2018 Forks Washington held it's first joint DART exercise involving both pilots and emergency resource from both Jefferson and Clallam Counties
Video Seaplane Disaster Exercise Video 2013/2016
This video is a combination of 2 drills based at the Kenmore Air exercise training site.
Combined Seaplane Disaster Drill Published 2014
This video is a combination of two videos of 2 drills conducted at a forward operating base lake.
Watsonville Airport central to aid effort after the Loma Prieta Earthquake
Komo 4 News Interview
This is about general aviation being that critical life line during one of our worst hurricane seasons.
Articles For Seaplane Magazine.com
Many years of writing for seaplanemagazine.com. It's been a life's effort to save future lives.
Q13 Interview With Alan Barnard
This is a interview with Alan Barnard who lead the development of the first DART in Washington State and the first DART ever to become a part of a county EMP.