The primary mission of the HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter is to conduct day or night personnel recovery operations into hostile environments to recover isolated personnel during war. The HH-60G is also tasked to perform military operations other than war, including civil search and rescue, medical evacuation, disaster response, humanitarian assistance, security cooperation/aviation advisory, NASA space flight support, and rescue command and control.

The Pave Hawk is a highly modified version of the Army Black Hawk helicopter which features an upgraded communications and navigation suite that includes integrated inertial navigation/global positioning/Doppler navigation systems, satellite communications, secure voice, and Have Quick communications.

All HH-60Gs have an automatic flight control system, night vision goggles with lighting and forward looking infrared system that greatly enhances night low-level operations. Additionally, Pave Hawks have color weather radar and an engine/rotor blade anti-ice system that gives the HH-60G an adverse weather capability.

Pave Hawk mission equipment includes a retractable in-flight refueling probe, internal auxiliary fuel tanks, two crew-served 7.62mm or .50 caliber machineguns, and an 8,000-pound (3,600 kilograms) capacity cargo hook. To improve air transportability and shipboard operations, all HH-60Gs have folding rotor blades.

Pave Hawk combat enhancements include a radar warning receiver, infrared jammer and a flare/chaff countermeasure dispensing system.

Pictured here is a 1:72 scale replica of a USAF Sikorsky HH-60G Pave Hawk helicopter that was attached to the 55th Special Operations Squadron, then participating in Operation Desert Storm during 1991. Pre-order! Ship Date: 2026.

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Length: 8-1/2-inches

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Historical Account: "Special Military Operation" - In 1988, the rescue role changed to special operations missions. During Operation Just Cause the 55th SOS performed combat search and rescue in Panama between December 20th, 1989, and January 14th, 1990. This was repeated during the 1991 Gulf War between January and March 1991, and again in the Persian Gulf region and the Kosovo, in 1998-1999. On February 25th, 1993, the 55th moved to Hurlburt Field, Florida, where the squadron was inactivated on November 11th, 1999.

On January 22nd, 2003, the squadron was reactivated at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona (USA). Since 2003, the squadron provided rapidly deployable combat search and rescue forces worldwide; and deployed aircraft and crews in response to national disasters, domestic search and rescue, and medical evacuation missions, like during Hurricane Katrina.