Season ends at Coast Guard Air Facility Muskegon

CLEVELAND — The U.S. Coast Guard is shutting down its seasonal air facility in Muskegon, Mich., Tuesday, following a busy summer.

The facility is located at the Muskegon County Airport and is open during the traditional Great Lakes boating season, which runs Memorial Day weekend through Labor Day weekend, to provide enhanced search and rescue services to the high volume of summer boaters on Lake Michigan.

Since Memorial Day, air crews from the Muskegon air facility saved one life and spent a total of 236 hours assisting in 50 search and rescue cases.

During the season, two air crews, each made up of two pilots, a flight mechanic and a rescue swimmer, and one HH-65C rescue helicopter from Air Station Detroit staff the air facility to provide search and rescue services 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

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