| Unit Name: | 50th Military Airlift Squadron |
| Dates: | 1942–1944; 1952–1969 |
| Role: | Airlift |
| Command Structure: | Military Airlift Command |
| Motto: | Transportatio Certe in Caelo Latin Sure Transportation in the Skies |
| Identification Symbol Label: | 50th Air Transport Squadron emblem |
The 50th Military Airlift Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was to the 1502d Air Transport Wing, Military Air Transport Service, stationed at Hickam Air Force Base, Hawaii.
It was inactivated on 8 January 1966.
Replaced the 1266th Air Transport Squadron, which had been established in 1949 as a medium transport squadron flying C-54 Skymasters, it transported supplies and personnel in the Pacific between Hawaii and the Philippines and bases in-between. It received long distance Boeing C-97 Stratofreighters and intercontinental Douglas C-124 Globemaster IIs in the 1950s and was part of the Military Air Transport Service worldwide network of transport units. It flew routes between India and the West Coast of the United States, Alaska and Japan.
It was reassigned to the 61st Military Airlift Wing in 1966 when its parent 1502d Air Transport Wing was inactivated.
Activated c. 1 August 1942
Disbanded on 31 March 1944
Activated on 20 July 1952
Redesignated 50th Military Airlift Squadron on 8 January 1966
Inactivated on 22 December 1969