918th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron explained

Unit Name:	918th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
Dates:	1952-1963
Country:	United States
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

References

• Cornett, Lloyd H. and Johnson, Mildred W., A Handbook of Aerospace Defense Organization 1946 - 1980, http://www.usafpatches.com/pubs/handbookofadcorg.pdf Office of History, Aerospace Defense Center, Peterson AFB, CO (1980).