CASARA Ontario is a member of the national Civil Air Search and Rescue Association (CASARA). Our volunteers are dedicated to providing air search support services for downed aircraft, in humanitarian efforts, and promoting the National Search and Rescue Program across Canada. Our volunteers are on call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to provide air search assistance to the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF).
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Successful SAREX 2023
CASARA Ontario held a very successful SAREX and Eval in the Temiskaming area over August 18-20, 2023. Thanks Marc Ungar for creating this for us.
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Ontario CASARA Awards 2023
A major search, T2023-00173 C-GMVB, was called by the RCAF in March 2023 for a plane missing between Nakina and Fort Hope. Thunder Bay was identified for the Advance Task Force (ATF) deployment.
The leadership of NOASARA readily offered its ample and well resourced p...
Search and Rescue RPAS Practice
CASARA Niagara along with assistance from CASARA London recently conducted cold weather testing of our RPAS capabilities. Members from the RCAF were also in attendance. Checkout the article from the NOTL Local below.
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CASARA Locates Downed Aircraft
On the morning of July 24th, 2021, an aircraft (a PA-24 Piper Comanche) from CASARA Ottawa was engaged in training exercises just east of Ottawa. During the exercise they heard a MAYDAY call from an aircraft in distress. The distress aircraft had encountered an eng...