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Park Forest South Aviation Group

Civil Air Patrol
The national Civil Air
Patrol (CAP) is the civilian auxiliary of the United
States Air Force. Chartered by the United States Congress
as a private, non-profit corporation of a benevolent
character, its 56,000 members include 27,000 cadets aged
12 through 21. The CAP performs 95 percent of all inland
search and rescue (SAR) missions and saves approximately
100 lives per year. It also provides aerial
reconnaissence for homeland security, disaster relief and
damage assessment, transport for time-sensitive medical
materials, and counter-narcotics missions.
The Illinois
Wing of the Civil Air Patrol bases one of its sailplanes
at Lake Village, Indiana. Many members of PFSAG are also
CAP members. Charges for flights by CAP members are
extremely reasonable and often funds are available to
underwrite orientation flights for cadet CAP members.
Membership in PFSAG does not require membership in
CAP, and vice versa.
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