460th Fighter-Interceptor Training Squadron

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460th Test and Evaluation Squadron
Philippine Presidential Unit Citation[1]
Commanders
Current
commander		Lt Col Eric Otto
Insignia
Patch with 460th Fighter-Interceptor Training Squadron emblem
Patch with 460th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron emblem (approved 17 January 1955)[1]

The 460th Test and Evaluation Squadron is an active

325th Fighter Weapons Wing at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, where it was inactivated on 15 October 1982. On 11 August 2023, it was reactivated and assigned to the 926th Operations Group, 926th Wing
at Nellias AFB, Nevada.

History

World War II

Established in late 1942 as a ground support squadron. Deployed to the

Okinawa
, then Japan after the Japanese Capitulation as part of the Occupation Force, inactivated in 1946.

Air defense

Convair F-102A-95-CO
Delta Dagger 57-907, 1960
460 FIS F-106 Delta Darts
in 1960s grey livery
P-47D 460th Fighter Squadron 1944

Reactivated in 1954 as part of the

air defense of the Oak Ridge National Laboratory and TVA dams in eastern Tennessee. Moved to Portland AFB, Oregon, and flew air defense missions over the Pacific Northwest, later to southern California in 1968 at Oxnard AFB, which closed a year later; it then moved to Grand Forks AFB, North Dakota
, until inactivated as part of the drawdown of ADC in 1974.

Fighter training

Reactivated briefly in early 1982 as an air defense training squadron at

Tyndall AFB
, Florida; inactivated late the same year.

Lineage

  • Constituted as the 1st Airdrome Squadron on 7 November 1942
Activated on 20 November 1942
Redesignated 460th Fighter Squadron, Single Engine on 14 July 1944
Inactivated on 20 February 1946
  • Redesignated 460th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron on 23 March 1953
Activated on 18 March 1954[2]
Discontinued on 25 March 1966
  • Activated on 1 September 1968 (not organized)
Organized on 30 September 1968
Inactivated on 30 July 1974
  • Redesignated 460th Fighter-Interceptor Training Squadron on 1 October 1980
Activated on 15 November 1980
Inactivated on 15 October 1982
  • Redesignated 460th Test and Evaluation Squadron on 2023
Activated on 11 August 2023

Assignments

Stations

Aircraft

  • A-20 Havoc
    , 1944
  • P-47 Thunderbolt
    , 1944–1945
  • P-51 Mustang
    , 1945–1946
  • F-86D Sabre Interceptor
    , 1954–1955
  • F-89 Scorpion
    , 1955–1958
  • F-102 Delta Dagger
    , 1958–1966; TF-102, 1982
  • F-106 Delta Dart
    , 1968–1974

References

Notes
  1. ^ a b c Maurer, Combat Squadrons, pp. 567–568
  2. ^ a b c Lineage, including assignments, stations and aircraft through 1963 in Maurer, Combat Squadrons, pp. 567–568

Bibliography

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

  • Cornett, Lloyd H; Johnson, Mildred W (1980). A Handbook of Aerospace Defense Organization, 1946–1980 (PDF). Peterson AFB, CO: Office of History, Aerospace Defense Center. Archived from the original (PDF) on 13 February 2016. Retrieved 23 March 2012.
  • Maurer, Maurer, ed. (1983) [1961]. Air Force Combat Units of World War II (PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History.
    LCCN 61060979
    . Retrieved 17 December 2016.
  • Maurer, Maurer, ed. (1982) [1969]. Combat Squadrons of the Air Force, World War II (PDF) (reprint ed.). Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History.
    OCLC 72556
    . Retrieved 17 December 2016.
  • "ADCOM's Fighter Interceptor Squadrons". The Interceptor. 21 (1). Aerospace Defense Command: 5–11, 26–31, 40–45, 54–59. January 1979.

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