Description There are more than 64,000 members of the Civil Air Patrol. In all, the CAP flies more than 100,000 hours each year performing important missions.The CAP was formed in the early 1940s as an all-volunteer organisation. Today the CAP continues to provide urgent search and rescue flights, air and ground support for disaster relief, flying officials and staff to remote locations, transporting essential medical supplies to accident sites and performing aerial damage assessment.
