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918th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron

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Active
  
1952-1963

Country
  
United States

918th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron

Branch
  
United States Air Force

Type
  
General Radar Surveillance

The 918th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the Seattle Air Defense Sector, Air Defense Command, stationed at Baldy Hughes Air Station, British Columbia, Canada. It was inactivated on 1 March 1963.

Contents

The unit was a General Surveillance Radar squadron providing for the air defense of North America.

Lineage

  • Constituted as 918th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
    • Activated on 16 April 1952 Discontinued and inactivated on 1 March 1963

    Assignments

  • Western Air Defense Force, 16 April 1952
  • 25th Air Division, 16 February 1953
  • Seattle Air Defense Sector, 1 March 1960 - 1 March 1963

    • Stations

  • Geiger Field, Washington, 16 April 1952
  • Baldy Hughes Air Station, British Columbia, Canada, 1 June 1953 - 1 March 1963

    • References

    918th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron Wikipedia
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