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# S o u n d O f S e r v i c e
... a special Thank You to our
Southern California Legacy
Event Partners, Volunteers &
Community Sponsors ...
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Introducing communities to the Heroes they can really look up to since 1993 !
American Heroes Air Show
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Event Yearbook Aircraft Presentations
Our special thanks to our Legacy Event Partner : HELI-NET Aviation
Mile Elliott arrives with his vintage Bell—47
AMERICAN HEROES Air Show Event Mission
EDUCATE || COMMUNICATE || DEMONSTRATE the value and capabilities of rotary-wing aviation to the community, public officials and media
Los Angeles, CA. 2017 American Heroes Air Show - FIRE & EMS
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Our volunteer team goes to great lengths each year to present a diverse group of helos from FIRE / RSQ teams. Their participation and demon-strations support our event mission of educating the public, media and public officials about the value of rotary-wing aviation.
In addition to the pictured aircraft, it was our previlage to welcome aircraft from : KERN County Sheriffs WOLFE Air Aviation / BO-105 Pasadena PD - Air Operations
LA City Fire Department Air Ops opens the event with their Red, White & Blue Tribute Water Drop
Los Angeles, CA. 2017 American Heroes Air Show - MIL
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U.S. Navy Squadron HSM-35 ‘Magicians’ arrives from their base at NAS North Island in San Diego ... this is one of many Navy helos with tail art by Shayne Meder ...
U.S. navy NAS Lemoore Base Search & Recue team
above, ... U.S. Navy MH-60S Seahawk is on site from NAS China Lake Weapons Test Cen-ter VX-31 Squadron. This base-located Search & Rescue helo features a fully qualified Night Vision Device SAR crew providing 24 hour SAR coverage seven days a week.
above, ... UH-60 Blackhawk with CA Air National Guard base 1106th TASMG [ Theater Aviation Sustainment Maintenance Group ] based in Fresno CA.
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As always, flight crews from U.S. military / DHS / DOJ organizations were out in force to educate the public, media and public officials about the value of rotary-wing aviation.
Above, the Air Ops team from DEA Los Angeles Field Office on final approach with their AS 350 A-Star.
Left, ... U.S. Coast Guard San Francisco Air Sta-tion arriving from their forward operating base at Pt. Mugu CA Below, ... Dept of Energy arrives in a high-tech Bell 407 from their base at Nellis AFB in Las Vegas.
Above, ... U.S. Navy NAS Lemoore makes their first appearance at HEROES Air Show with SH-60 Seahawk “LASSO 1” tasked to their base Search & Rescue squadron...
Los Angeles CA 2017 USCIS Naturalization Ceremony
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OATH OF ALLEGIANCE
I HEREBY DECLARE, on oath, that I absolutely and entirely renounce and abjure all allegiance and fidelity to any foreign prince, potentate, state or sovereignty of whom or which I have heretofore been a subject or citizen; that I will support and defend the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign and domestic; that I will bear true faith and allegiance to the same; that I will bear arms on behalf of the United States when required by the law; that I will perform noncom-batant service in the Armed Forces of the United States when re-quired by the law; that I will perform work of national importance under civilian direction when required by the law; and that I take this obligation freely without any mental reservation or purpose of evasion ... SO HELP ME GOD.
Photo above - Mr. Dean Schofield opens the USCIS Naturalization Ceremony and welcomes the community with our National Anthem. Additionally, we extend our sincere appreciation to Master of
Ceremonies, John D. Holland, USCIS San Fernando Valley Section Manager and Joseph M. Hackbarth; USCIS Field Office Director and Ms. Grace Arreola-Munoz; USCIS Community Relations Officer.
We also recognize Dean Schofield; Event Associate, Steve Golds-
worthy, Associate Event Director; along with Col. Mary Savage / Civil
Air Patrol and Ms. ChristyAnn Evans for their important support !
Our special thanks to our friend Christyann Evans for her support of the 2017 Naturalization Ceremony at the American Heroes Air Show—CA.
below, Special Agent Darwin Tchan with DHS—Homeland Security Investigations joined us as Keynote Speaker ...
Members of the So Cal. community stood & recited their Oath of Allegiance to become U.S. Citizens at a special ceremony during the 2017 American Heroes Air Show. Our special thanks to the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services for partnering with our volunteer team again this year !
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Event Yearbook CODE3 Career & Recruiting Expo Since our very first Heroes Air Show in 1993, we’ve invited law enforcement, military, homeland security and volunteer Search & Rescue units to take advantage of free presenta-tion space in order to profile career / volunteer opportuni-ties with their organizations. In addition to the teams pictured below, our 2017 event welcomed the following organizations : Huntington Beach PD LASD Montrose Search & Rescue
U.S. Marine Corps. U.S. Army / CA. National Guard
San Fernando PD Whittier PD
U.S. Customs & Border Protection
Riverside Sheriffs Federal Air Marshal Service Los Angeles Emergency Management Dept.
LAUSD Police Dept. U.S. Secret Service
LA World Airports PD Glendale PD
U.S. Forest Service U.S. DOE
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Non - Profit Partners
CHP Explorers and Senior Volunteers team up to assist with parking and event operations ...
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Howard Lewis, left and Lt Col Dave Worley, USAF (Ret) deploy to educate the community about the mission of the Military Order of World Wars w w w . M O W W . o r g
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Professional Cars, Intl.
Left, Lou Farah rolls in with the Professional Cars team ...
Below, Lou
Farah, left and
Jim Paules take
a photo opp
break during the
2002 American
Heroes Air Show
Professional Cars International is an international car club that is dedi-cated to the restoration, appreciation, preservation and the celebration of a wide variety of vintage and current model vehicles used in the profes-sions of the emergency medical services, the funeral industry, livery, law enforcement agencies, fire protection, governmental agencies and any other professions that utilize emergency and professional vehicles. The organization hosts a number of events across the country each year and our magazine is the most published professional car magazine in the world today. Find more info on the Professional Car Facebook page
Teamwork … it’s the one constant concept we rely on each year at the Heroes Air Show. Our volunteers form the core of our event staff .
The Heroes Air Ops team under the leadership of Tony Byrnes, ... to the left:
Phil Aune “Heroes Control” Sean O’Conner Donovan O’Conner Dave Andrews Jon Andrews Nathan Wilking
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Event Yearbook Volunteer Teams
Above, Phil Aune at “Heroes Control”
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below, Sean O’Conner
Below, Jim Koenekamp, left of line with team from FIRE In Motion who has provided first-in fire & emergency response for many years at the Heroes event !
Above, Dave Andrews - Air Ops team below, ... Jon Andrews on flight line
below, Dean Schofield at the podium welcomes the USCIS and opens the Naturalization Ceremony with the National Anthem ...
F i r e I n M o t i o n . n e t
Below, Chuck Street, Event MC announcing the demonstrations on the flight line
Above, as Associate Event Director Steve ’Goldy’ Goldsworthy provided key event management talents
On behalf of our entire volunteer team, we
extend a special Thank You to our
sponsors and Legacy Event Partners.
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Their contribution of financial support,
equipment and per-sonal talent enables
the Heroes Air Show to continue to
produce this admission-free,
educational event for the Southern
California community.
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STAR Helicop-ters was again the Official Ride Ship provider for the 2016 American He-roes Air Show - GREAT JOB guys !!!! A i r s h o w A u d i o . b i z
We also extend a GIANT THANK YOU to Lori Judd and our friends at the CIA: Creative
Impact Agency in Encino for their creative design work & donated time to re-imagine our Heroes Air Show logo and new eye-catching
flyer for our Los Angeles event.
Lor i@C IA -ADV.com
Our thanks once again to the Bobby Sherman Foundation team
Legacy Event Partners
Check out the unique video shot by WOLFE Air Aviation during 17CA HEROES arrivals ... Our thanks to Dan Wolfe & Justin Chapman ...
AMERICAN H E RO E S A i r S h o w
Mission Statement
EDUCATE | COMMUNICATE | DEMONSTRATE
Since 1993 the Heroes Air Show mission delivers an ex-
citing aviation event to educate the community, media and elected officials as to the unique value rotary-wing aviation
delivers to public safety, private enterprise, homeland se-
curity and national defense. #USAHEROES
Log on to the American Heroes Air Show channel on YouTUBE for event profiles, pix and video cover-age !
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Event Yearbook Final Notes
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James D. Paules Jr.
Volunteer, Event Director CA
(818) 631-8132
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The most up-to-date info on all our events from coast-to-coast is always found on our facebook & Twitter feeds :
Guests always enjoy the final hour of the event as the crews prepare to depart for home ... and our volunteer team starts planning for next year !!!
Many of the photos included in our 2017 Year Book are provided courtesy of :
Damon Duran Jason Jorgensen / HeliWeb Lee Calkins Matt Slatoff Dean Grose HeliNet team LASD team Andreas Cruz Gene Blevins / LA Daily News Chester Brown Jesse Brunt / Wolfe Aviation Lou Farah Howard & Vivian Lewis
Below, James Paules speaking during the Naturalization Ceremony at the AMERICAN Heroes Air Show ...
A special thank you to the many photographers from around the nation who join us each year to record the arrivals !!! Always awesome pix !
