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Nevada Wing History

Nevada Wing celebrated 80 years of service in 2021

Civil Air Patrol's Nevada Wing is the highest echelon in the state of Nevada and was chartered on December 1, 1941.  Nevada Wing contributed to the state and nation through search and rescue (SAR) and military support roles during the Second World War. Since then, Nevada Wing has provided search and rescue (SAR) capabilities throughout the nation’s seventh largest state.

  

 

 

View the 80th Anniversary Edition of Silver Wings Over Nevada

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