When a late-night June 18 boating collision left a teenager missing in the darkness of Lake Lanier, Georgia State Patrol’s aviation team turned on the “night sun.” The state agency’s helicopter was the first to arrive on the scene of the crash near the mouth of Shoal Creek in the lake’s southern end. The incident may have been the first publicized benefit of having one of six posts of the Georgia State Patrol’s aviation division locate in Gainesville.