Vehicle I-D: Canuck’s Colorful Cormorant

Photo by Canadian North American Aerospace Defense Region.

In the land of the Canucks, a colorful Cormorant with rotary wings has refused to fly south for the Winter, and was recently seen flying the skies over Newfoundland and Labrador.

Photo by Can-NorAD-R.

Photo by Can-NorAD-R.

The Canuck’s have ‘kawai’ Unimogs.

The CH-149 Cormorant is Canada’s nomenclature for the  AgustaWestland AW101 (formerly EH101), it is the Search and Rescue (SaR) version of Canada’s CH-148.  In the United Kingdom the AW101 is known as the Merlin.  Canada is part of the Commonwealth of Nations, which is lead by Queen Elizabeth the Second of United Kingdom, but apparently tried to show some independence by calling its AW101 ‘CH-149 Cormorant’.

Photo by Can-NorAD-R.

The photos you see were taken on Canadian Force Base (CFB) Goose Bay, 18MAR2021, prepping for NorAD’s (North American Aerospace Defense Command) wargame called Amalgam Dart.

Don’t you know smoking is bad for you?

Photo by Can-NorAD-R.

On way to Canadian Forces Station (CFS) Alert, first stop Iqaluit.

Photo by Can-NorAD-R.

A stop-over in Iqaluit (Place of many Fish), while enroute to CFS Alert.

Photo by Can-NorAD-R.

Back on way to CFS Alert.

Canadian Forces photo by Master Corporal Gary Clavé.

Thule Air Base, Greenland, 20MAR2021.

U.S. Coast Guard photo by Petty Officer First Class Levi Read.

Patient transfer between U.S. Coast Guard and Royal Canadian Air Force, Neah Bay, Washington, 28APR2019.

USCG photo.

Rescue training in the Strait of Juan de Fuca, Washington, 03OCT2018.

June 2017: Don’t ‘crosstell’ but a Red Coat Canadian is in charge of U.S. air defense (or should I spell it defence?)!

May 2017: MARYLAND MILITIA SPENDS MEMORIAL WEEKEND RESCUING PILOTS IN CANADA!

Canadian Forces video by Corporal Mathieu Gaudreault, CH-149 Exercise Vigilant Shield, October 2015:

U.S. Air Force photo.

U.S. Air Force pararescue personnel train with Royal Canadian Cormorant on Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, 24AUG2015.

Canadian Forces video by Master Corporal Chelsey Hutson, CH-149 Operation Nunalivut, April 2015:

 

USCG photo by Petty Officer Third Class Nate Littlejohn.

Taking part in U.S. Coast Guard Advanced Helicopter Rescue School training near Cape Disappointment, Washington, 26JAN2012.

USCG photo by Petty Officer Third Class James Rhodes.

Rescue training with U.S. Coast Guard off Boston, Massachusetts,  11SEP2009.