1981年4月26日，佛罗里达州埃格林空军基地辅助场赫尔伯特机场，美国陆军第1特种作战联队的战斗控制小组从悬停的UH-1H“易洛魁”直升机上训练垂降。（Combat control team members rappel from a hovering Army UH-1H Iroquois helicopter during training. The team members are from the 1st Special Operations Wing.）

2003年4月19日，亚利桑那州图森市戴维斯 - 蒙森空军基地外围沙漠，美国空军作战司令部举行“雷鸣天使'2010”联合战斗搜救演习，第1直升机中队的UH-1降落在伤员集合点，该中队来自马里兰州安德鲁斯空军基地，主要为美国空军高级官员提供运输，以及参与搜索和救援任务。（A U.S. Air Force UH-1N Huey helicopter from the 1st Helicopter Squadron out of Andrews Air Force Base (AFB), Md., transports exercise participants from Benson Municipal Airport in Arizona to a casualty collection point in the desert outside Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, Ariz., April 19, 2010, during Angel Thunder 2010. Angel Thunder, an Air Combat Command-sponsored exercise, is the largest personnel recovery/combat search and rescue exercise to date and combines Department of Defense (DoD) and non-DoD assets.）

2003年4月18日，伊拉克济加尔省塔利尔空军基地，伊拉克自由行动中，美国空军第304救援中队的 HH-60G“铺路鹰”绳降救援人员。（OPERATION IRAQI FREEDOM -- Pararescuemen from the 304th Rescue Squadron fast rope from an HH-60G Pavehawk April 18, 2003 at Tallil Air Base, Iraq during Operation Iraqi Freedom.）

2003年4月25日，内华达州南部，美国空军第66救援中队的一架 HH-60G“铺路鹰”在训练中飞越沙漠地带，第66救援中队的主要任务是营救被击落的飞行员，是空军五个现役救援中队之一，驻扎于内华达州内利斯空军基地。（NELLIS AIR FORCE BASE, Nev. -- A HH-60G Pave Hawk from the 66th Rescue Squadron, Nellis Air Force Base, Nev., flies over the desert terrain of southern Nevada during a training mission. The 66th Rescue Squadron's primary mission is the recovery of downed pilots and is one of only five active duty rescue squadrons in the Air Force. ）

2003年4月25日，伊拉克，美国空军第21特种作战中队（21st SOS）的MH-53M"低空铺路"IV在进行机动飞行，前往伊拉克北部可疑地点对基地组织激进分子进行清剿，在伊拉克自由行动中这种定点清剿任务是常规作战的一部分。第21特种作战中队隶属于美国空军欧洲司令部，驻扎在英格兰萨福克米尔登霍尔空军基地，伊拉克自由行动展开后该中队即被调往伊拉克。（A US Air Force (USAF) MH-53M Pave Low IV helicopter from the 21st Special Operations Squadron, Royal Air Force (RAF) Mildenhall, pulls a hard left over a suspected hostile site in Northern Iraq while on a routine combat mission, in support of Operation IRAQI FREEDOM.）

2004年4月25日，多米尼加共和国巴拉奥纳机场，两架美国陆军第228航空团第1营的 UH-60L“黑鹰”直升机起飞前往海地，该营驻扎于洪都拉斯索托卡诺空军基地，UH-60L由UH-60A升级而来，于1988年3月22日首飞，1989年10月开始服役。到2002年初美国陆军已经装备了539架UH-60L，现在已经很难区别UH-60A和UH-60L了，因为许多UH-60A在升级了自卫套件和电缆剪后在外观上和UH-60L没有太多区别。（Two U.S. Army UH-60 Blackhawk helicopters from 1st Battalion, 228th Aviation Regiment, Soto Cano, Honduras, land at the airport in Barahona, Dominican Republic, on April 25, 2004, to pick up a passenger for a flight to Haiti.）

2005年4月18日，地中海，卡尔萨基（LHD-3）两栖攻击舰，配属第26海军陆战队远征部队（26th MEU）的CH-46E进行定期维护，这架CH-46E隶属于HMM-162海上中型直升机中队，于2005年12月9日开始逐步汰换成MV-22，中队名称也改为VMM-162海上倾转旋翼机中队。（Mediterranean Sea (April 18, 2005) - Marines assigned to the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) perform planned maintenance (PMS) on a CH-46E Sea Knight Helicopter prior to flight operations onboard the amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge (LHD 3). The 26th MEU is currently embarked aboard the Kearsarge, which is on scheduled deployment in support of the global war on terrorism.）

1987年8月1日，阿拉斯加陆军国民警卫队的CH-54B"塔赫"起重直升机在地面人员的指挥下吊起PBY"卡塔利娜"水上飞机，这架被废弃的PBY将被送往阿拉斯加航空博物馆修复收藏。（An Alaska Army National Guard CH-54B Tahre airlifts an OA-10 PBY Catalina flying boat during a recovery operation. The historic aircraft was abandoned by the Air Force after engine trouble forced it down at Dago Lake on September 30, 1947. Members of the Alaskan Aviation Heritage Museum, initiators of the recovery operation, plan to restore the aircraft and have it flying again sometime in the early 1990s.）

1987年8月1日，阿拉斯加陆军国民警卫队的CH-54B"塔赫"起重直升机吊运PBY"卡塔利娜"水上飞机飞越克拉克湖，这架被废弃的PBY将被送往阿拉斯加航空博物馆修复收藏。（An Alaska Army National Guard CH-54B Tahre airlifts as an OA-10 PBY Catalina flying boat over Lake Clark Pass during a recovery operation. The historic aircraft was abandoned by the Air Force after engine trouble forced it down at Dago Lake on September 30, 1947. Members of the Alaskan Aviation Heritage Museum, initiators of the recovery operation, plan to restore the aircraft and have it flying again sometime in the early 1990s.）

1987年8月1日，阿拉斯加陆军国民警卫队的CH-54B"塔赫"起重直升机吊运PBY"卡塔利娜"水上飞机飞越克拉克湖，这架被废弃的PBY将被送往阿拉斯加航空博物馆修复收藏。（An Alaska Army National Guard CH-54B Tahre airlifts as an OA-10 PBY Catalina flying boat over Lake Clark Pass during a recovery operation. The historic aircraft was abandoned by the Air Force after engine trouble forced it down at Dago Lake on September 30, 1947. Members of the Alaskan Aviation Heritage Museum, initiators of the recovery operation, plan to restore the aircraft and have it flying again sometime in the early 1990s.）