918th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron

918th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
	Emblem of the 918th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
Active	1952-1963
Country	United States
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.

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

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References

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

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).

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