52nd Airlift Squadron
Encyclopedia
The 52d Airlift Squadron is a Regular Component United States Air Force
unit. Its currently assigned to the 19th Airlift Wing at Little Rock Air Force Base
, Arkansas, but is based at Peterson Air Force Base
, Colorado. There, the squadron flies and maintains aircraft with the Air Force Reserve's 302d Airlift Wing
.
United States Air Force
The United States Air Force is the aerial warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the American uniformed services. Initially part of the United States Army, the USAF was formed as a separate branch of the military on September 18, 1947 under the National Security Act of...
unit. Its currently assigned to the 19th Airlift Wing at Little Rock Air Force Base
Little Rock Air Force Base
Little Rock Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located approximately northeast of Little Rock, Arkansas.-Overview:...
, Arkansas, but is based at Peterson Air Force Base
Peterson Air Force Base
Peterson Air Force Base is a base of the United States Air Force located at Colorado Springs in El Paso County, Colorado, United States and it provides runways for the adjacent City of Colorado Springs Municipal Airport under a shared joint civil-military airport arrangement...
, Colorado. There, the squadron flies and maintains aircraft with the Air Force Reserve's 302d Airlift Wing
302d Airlift Wing
The 302nd Airlift Wing is a wing of the United States Air Force Reserve based out of Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado Springs, Colorado.-Mission:...
.
Lineage
- Constituted as 52d Transport Squadron on 30 May 1942
- Activated on 15 June 1942
- Redesignated as 52d Troop Carrier Squadron on 4 July 1942
- Disbanded on 14 April 1944
- Reconstituted, and redesignated 52d Troop Carrier Squadron, Medium, on 10 May 1949
- Activated in the Reserve on 27 June 1949
- Ordered to active service on 1 May 1951
- Inactivated on 9 May 1951
- Redesignated 52d Troop Carrier Squadron, Heavy, on 19 March 1953
- Activated on 20 June 1953
- Redesignated as: 52d Military Airlift Squadron on 8 January 1966
- Inactivated on 8 February 1969
- Activated on 1 June 1988
- Redesignated as 52d Airlift Squadron on 1 January 1992
- Inactivated on 30 September 1992
- Activated on 1 May 1994
- Inactivated on 27 September 1997
- Activated on 3 October 2009 as an active associate squadron with the Air Force Reserve's 302d Airlift Wing
Assignments
- 63d Transport (later, 63d Troop Carrier) Group63d Airlift WingThe 63d Airlift Wing is an inactive unit of the United States Air Force. Its last assignment was with Air Mobility Command, being stationed at Norton Air Force Base, California. It was inactivated on April 1, 1994.-Origins:...
, 15 June 1942 – 14 April 1944 - 63d Troop Carrier Group63d Airlift WingThe 63d Airlift Wing is an inactive unit of the United States Air Force. Its last assignment was with Air Mobility Command, being stationed at Norton Air Force Base, California. It was inactivated on April 1, 1994.-Origins:...
, 27 June 1949 – 9 May 1951 - 63d Troop Carrier Group63d Airlift WingThe 63d Airlift Wing is an inactive unit of the United States Air Force. Its last assignment was with Air Mobility Command, being stationed at Norton Air Force Base, California. It was inactivated on April 1, 1994.-Origins:...
, 20 June 1953
- Attached for operational control to 322d Air Division, c. 29 January-c. 1 August 1960 and c. January 1962
- 63d Troop Carrier (later, 63d Military Airlift) Wing63d Airlift WingThe 63d Airlift Wing is an inactive unit of the United States Air Force. Its last assignment was with Air Mobility Command, being stationed at Norton Air Force Base, California. It was inactivated on April 1, 1994.-Origins:...
, 18 January 1963
- 63d Troop Carrier (later, 63d Military Airlift) Wing
- Remained under operational control of 322d Air Division
- 436th Military Airlift Wing, 8 January 1967 – 8 February 1969
- Remained under operational control of 322d Air Division, to 8 February 1969
- 63d Military Airlift Wing63d Airlift WingThe 63d Airlift Wing is an inactive unit of the United States Air Force. Its last assignment was with Air Mobility Command, being stationed at Norton Air Force Base, California. It was inactivated on April 1, 1994.-Origins:...
, 1 June 1988
- 63d Military Airlift Wing
- 63d Operations Group, 1 January-30 September 1992
- 347th Operations Group, 1 May 1994 – 1 April 1997
- 19th Operations Group19th Operations GroupThe 19th Operations Group is the operational flying component of the United States Air Force 19th Airlift Wing, stationed at Little Rock Air Force Base, Arkansas....
, 3 October 2009–present
Stations
- Camp Williams, WisconsinWisconsinWisconsin is a U.S. state located in the north-central United States and is part of the Midwest. It is bordered by Minnesota to the west, Iowa to the southwest, Illinois to the south, Lake Michigan to the east, Michigan to the northeast, and Lake Superior to the north. Wisconsin's capital is...
, 15 June 1942 - Dodd AAFDodd Army AirfieldDodd Army Airfield was an airfield located within the current boundaries of Fort Sam Houston in San Antonio, Texas. Dodd Field includes the area bounded on the north by Rittiman Road, on the west by Harry Wurzbach Memorial Highway, on the south by Winans Road and on the east by the Fort Sam...
, Texas, 17 September 1942 - Stuttgart AAF, ArkansasArkansasArkansas is a state located in the southern region of the United States. Its name is an Algonquian name of the Quapaw Indians. Arkansas shares borders with six states , and its eastern border is largely defined by the Mississippi River...
, 18 November 1942 - Victorville AAF, California, 25 December 1942
- Lawson AAFLawson Army AirfieldLawson Army Airfield is a military airport located at Fort Benning in Chattahoochee County, Georgia, south of the city of Columbus, Georgia. It is Fort Benning's primary Force Projection Platform.- Facilities :Lawson Army Airfield has one runway:...
, GeorgiaGeorgia (U.S. state)Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...
, 5 May 1943 - Grenada AAF, MississippiMississippiMississippi is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States. Jackson is the state capital and largest city. The name of the state derives from the Mississippi River, which flows along its western boundary, whose name comes from the Ojibwe word misi-ziibi...
, 3 June 1943 - Sedalia AAF, MissouriMissouriMissouri is a US state located in the Midwestern United States, bordered by Iowa, Illinois, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Kansas and Nebraska. With a 2010 population of 5,988,927, Missouri is the 18th most populous state in the nation and the fifth most populous in the Midwest. It...
, c. 19 January- 14 April 1944 - Floyd Bennett NASFloyd Bennett FieldFloyd Bennett Field is New York City's first municipal airport. While no longer used as an operational commercial, military or general aviation airfield, the New York Police Department still flies its helicopters from its heliport base there...
, New York, 27 June 1949 – 9 May 1951 - Altus AFB, OklahomaOklahomaOklahoma is a state located in the South Central region of the United States of America. With an estimated 3,751,351 residents as of the 2010 census and a land area of 68,667 square miles , Oklahoma is the 28th most populous and 20th-largest state...
, 20 June 1953
- Donaldson AFB, South CarolinaSouth CarolinaSouth Carolina is a state in the Deep South of the United States that borders Georgia to the south, North Carolina to the north, and the Atlantic Ocean to the east. Originally part of the Province of Carolina, the Province of South Carolina was one of the 13 colonies that declared independence...
, 15 October 1953
- Operated from Rhein-Main AB, West GermanyWest GermanyWest Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....
, 29 January-c. 1 August 1960 and c. January 1962–- Hunter AFB, GeorgiaGeorgia (U.S. state)Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...
, 30 June 1963
- Hunter AFB, Georgia
- Continued to operate from Rhein-Main AB, West GermanyWest GermanyWest Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....
- Dover AFB, DelawareDelawareDelaware is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Coast in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States. It is bordered to the south and west by Maryland, and to the north by Pennsylvania...
, 8 January 1967 – 8 February 1969
- Dover AFB, Delaware
- Continued to operate from Rhein-Main AB, West GermanyWest GermanyWest Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....
, to 8 February 1969- Norton AFB, California, 1 June 1988 – 30 September 1992
- Moody AFB, GeorgiaGeorgia (U.S. state)Georgia is a state located in the southeastern United States. It was established in 1732, the last of the original Thirteen Colonies. The state is named after King George II of Great Britain. Georgia was the fourth state to ratify the United States Constitution, on January 2, 1788...
, 1 May 1994 – 1 April 1997 - Peterson AFB, ColoradoColoradoColorado is a U.S. state that encompasses much of the Rocky Mountains as well as the northeastern portion of the Colorado Plateau and the western edge of the Great Plains...
, 3 October 2009–present
Aircraft
- Douglas DC-3, 1942
- C-39, 1942
- C-53, 1942–1943
- C-47, 1942–1944; 1949–1951
- T-6, 1949–1950
- T-7, 1949–1951
- T-11, 1949–1951
- C-124, 1953–1969
- C-141, 1988–1992
- C-130E, 1994–1997
- C-130H3, 2009–present