864th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron

The 864th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the Phoenix Air Defense Sector, Air Defense Command, stationed at Yuma Air Force Station, Arizona. It was inactivated on 1 August 1963.

864th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
Emblem of the 864th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
Active1955-1963
CountryUnited States
Branch United States Air Force
TypeGeneral Radar Surveillance

The unit was a General Surveillance Radar squadron providing for the air defense of the United States.

Lineage
  • Constituted as the 864th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
Activated on 8 August 1955
Redesignated 864th Radar Squadron (SAGE), 1 June 1962
Redesignation retroactively revoked[1]
Discontinued and inactivated on 1 August 1963

Assignments
  • 27th Air Division, 8 August 1955
  • Los Angeles Air Defense Sector, 1 October 1959
  • Phoenix Air Defense Sector, 1 May 1961 – 1 August 1963

Stations

  • Yuma County Airport, Arizona, 8 August 1955
Base redesignated Vincent AFB, 1 September 1956
Station redesignated Yuma AFS, 20 July 1962 - 1 August 1963

References

 This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website http://www.afhra.af.mil/.

  1. Air Defense Command Special Order G-4, 15 October 1962
  • Cornett, Lloyd H. and Johnson, Mildred W., A Handbook of Aerospace Defense Organization 1946 - 1980, Office of History, Aerospace Defense Center, Peterson AFB, CO (1980).
  • Winkler, David F. & Webster, Julie L., Searching the Skies, The Legacy of the United States Cold War Defense Radar Program, US Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories, Champaign, IL (1997).

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