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653d Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron

The 653d Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the Oklahoma City Air Defense Sector, Air Defense Command, stationed at England Air Force Base, Louisiana. It was inactivated on 1 August 1963.

653d Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
Emblem of the 630th Radar Squadron
Active1949-1952, 1953-1963
CountryUnited States
BranchUnited States Air Force
TypeGeneral Radar Surveillance

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

Lineage

  • Established as 653d Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
Activated on 8 December 1949
Inactivated on 6 February 1952
  • Activated on 18 June 1953
Inactivated on 1 August 1963

Assignments

Stations

  • Stewart AFB, NY, 8 December 1949 - 6 February 1952
  • Tinker AFB, OK, 18 June 1953
  • Alexandria AFB, LA, 1 November 1954 (renamed England AFB 23 June 1955) – 1 August 1963

References

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  This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency

  • Cornett, Lloyd H. and Johnson, Mildred W., A Handbook of Aerospace Defense Organization 1946 - 1980, [1] Archived 23 November 2006 at the Wayback Machine 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, [2][dead link‍] US Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories, Champaign, IL (1997).
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