Aeronautical assets

The coastguard can call upon the following resources:

Ministry of Defence
The two Coastguard aircraft, type Dornier 228-212,  PH-CGN and PH-CGC are managed by the Royal Airforce. Maintenance is done by Jet Support. The pilots are from the Royal Netherlands Navy and Royal Netherlands Airforce and the observers are from various ministries. These aircraft have navigation, communication, tracking, photo and video equipment onboard.

    The tasks are:
    - Support during SAR actions
    - Tracking and Identifying pollution (oil/chemicals) and the source of the pollution.
    - Upholding the law regarding nautical traffic.
    - Maritime traffic research, (Name, ship type, nationality, loaded or empty, port of destination
      and so on) to get an overview of the volume of traffic on the Northsea.
The standard crew is two pilots and two observers onboard these aircraft. 

At the airfiled De Kooy near Den Helder Squadron 860 from the Defence Helicopter Command is stationed. This squadron is equipped with Lynx helicopters. Since July 1st 2011 the Lynx helicopters are out of service and will be replaced by new helicopters of the NH-90 type. The NH-90 will be operational in 2013. In the mean time the SAR task is performed by the Agusta Bell 412 during daylight hours. During dark hours a private helicopter is standby for SAR and stationed on the Maasvlakte. This helicopter is a Eurocopter Dauphin.

From the Defence Helicopter Command the Netherlands coastguard can call upon helicopters from the type Agusta Bell 412 SP, example SAR R-03. Thes helicopters are stationed at airbase Leeuwarden. During exercises with F-16 fighters there is always one helicopter standby on the isle of Vlieland. They are also used for medical transportation from the Frisian islands to hospitals ashore.

Ministry of Safety and Justice
From the ministry of Safety and Justice the Coastguard centre can call upon 2 police surveillance helicopters for regular patrol flights. The type of helicopter is Agusta Westland AW139, example    PH-PXZ.

NOGEPA
The SAR R-03 Seaking S61N helicopter from Bristow is hired by NOGEPA (Netherlands Oil and Gas Exploration and Production Association) for offshore calamities. The helicopter is also available for other SAR actions.