Eye in the Sky Mystery Cache

NOTE: This cache is 1 of 16 associated with the Ol' Salty Dog's Maritime Mixer cache series.

Find your way to the physical cache container at the coordinates revealed by solving the puzzle below. In the physical cache container, attached to the log, you will find a "puzzle piece" that will get you one step closer to finding Ol' Salty Dog's Maritime Mixer.

At its inception, there were no aircraft and the Coast Guard was relatively late in acquiring its own aircraft. A civilian aircraft was used to prove the need for Coast Guard aviation. At the time of the initial pilot training phase, conducted by the US Navy, the United States was engaged in WWI. During the war, Coast Guard Aviators were assigned to naval units on an individual basis. The aircraft they flew were not Coast Guard aircraft.

The first designated Coast Guard aircraft were six Curtiss HS-2L flying boats, borrowed from the Navy when the initial Coast Guard Air Station was established at Morehead City, North Carolina in 1920. Another early Coast Guard aircraft was a Vought UO-1, borrowed in 1925 from the Navy for a year. It was used to fly patrols to combat rum-running during Prohibition. On March 3, 1926, the Coast Guard was given permission to purchase five airplanes, the first planes that the Coast Guard could call its own. More aircraft were soon to follow.

The Coast Guard now operates 202 fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft – airplanes and helicopters – to support its work as a law enforcement arm, a military service branch, and a seafaring service. Nearly all Coast Guard aircraft have some role in homeland security operations, and some are now armed.

The Coast Guard operates its aviation fleet on the principle that it cannot afford a fleet of aircraft intended solely for specialized missions, and has concentrated on aircraft that can carry out a wide range of diversified missions.

Pictured below are a variety of models of aircraft that have been commissioned by the Coast Guard during the last century. Utilize your sleuthing skills and match each listed model name (annotated as A through J) with the correct aircraft image to determine the correct adjacent number to assign to each missing decimal minute digit of this puzzle cache's coordinates.