Tillamook Air Museum Acquires Rare Coast Guard Jet

HU-25 Guardian will soon be transported to Oregon by helicopter.

Meg Godlewski

Friday, May 23, 2025 at 03:00 PM ET

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Travis Tingle

Tillamook Air Museum in Oregon will soon be receiving its first Coast Guard aircraft—this HU-25 Guardian—for the collection. [Courtesy: U.S. Coast Guard]

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The Tillamook Air Museum is acquiring a U.S. Coast Guard HU-25 Guardian jet, marking the first Coast Guard aircraft in its collection.
The HU-25 Guardian, which previously served in search and rescue and other vital missions, will be uniquely transported to the museum slung beneath a Marine Corps CH-53K heavy lift helicopter.
Museum officials anticipate the aerial delivery will be a rare and unforgettable event, though the exact date is yet to be announced.

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It takes an aircraft to deliver an aircraft, at least in the case of the U.S. Coast Guard HU-25 Guardian, a fixed-wing jet that will soon be delivered to the Tillamook Air Museum in Oregon.

The HU-25 Guardian—a militarized Falcon—is the first Coast Guard aircraft to join the museum’s collection. The aircraft entered service with the branch on February 28, 1982. The jet was used for search and rescue, marine environmental protection, military readiness, and migrant and drug interdiction. The Coast Guard jet had multiple stations, including San Diego; Corpus Christi, Texas; Mobile, Alabama; and Cape Cod, Massachusetts.