NEWS: Wing locates distress signal in Warrenton

WASHINGTON — Civil Air Patrol's National Capital Wing detected and located an active distress signal today. An aircrew on a routine training flight heard the signal and located the offending aircraft, which was determined to be "non-distress" and an acidental activation.

Read more details about the find on the wing blog, Above the Capital ... .

Civil Air Patrol’s National Capital Wing currently has 215 volunteer officers and senior members and 110 cadets in the Washington, D.C., metro area. Federal employees and military personnel can support CAP through the Combined Federal Campaign of the National Capital Area – CFC charity number 26757. 

Civil Air Patrol, the official auxiliary of the U.S. Air Force, is a nonprofit organization with 56,000 members nationwide. CAP performs 90 percent of continental U.S. inland search and rescue missions as tasked by the Air Force Rescue Coordination Center and was credited by the Air Force with saving 91 lives in fiscal year 2008. Its volunteers also perform homeland security, disaster relief and counter-drug missions at the request of federal, state and local agencies. The members play a leading role in aerospace education and serve as mentors to the nearly 22,000 young people currently participating in CAP cadet programs. CAP has been performing missions for America for more than 67 years. For more information on CAP, visit www.gocivilairpatrol.com.