What We Do

The Civil Air Patrol is the official Auxiliary of the United States Airforce. Our major areas of focus are Cadet Programs, Aerospace Education, and Emergency Services.

In our sqadron, KY-073, we are very active in emergency services and in particular aircrew training, mission participation, and pilot onboarding and development. We are also working to expand our sUAS (Drone) capabilities and our Aerospace Education programs to include more community partners with an emphasis on Teacher Members. While we are a Senior (Adult) squadron, we continue to support Cadet activities in our local and wing areas, most commonly through Orientation Flights. We welcome visitors and potential new members to our meetings and look forward to meeting the community, particularly at the Lunken Airport Days events. 

Some of the missions we are involved in include

• Searching for pilots in distress, who could be lost, missing, or following up on activated emergency locator beacons

• Airborne reconnaissance of critical infrastructure through impact and damage assessments and recovery support for disaster areas, including aerial imagery of facilities

• Damage assessment and disaster recovery with trained ground teams able to augment civil and military authorities

• Aerial transportation of personnel, equipment, and various customer‐supplied sensor packages

• Nationwide VHF-FM and HF messaging communication capability including fixed and mobile systems with portable tactical repeaters (ground and air)

• Flying cadets and teachers as part of our aerospace education program

• Participating in homeland security missions

• CAP has ICS/NIMS trained personnel available to serve at all levels in the Incident Command System mission organization and Emergency Operations Centers