Unit Name: | Light Combat Aviation Squadron of 9th Air Command Vazduhoplovna eskadrila lake borbene avijacije 9. vazduhoplovne komande |
Dates: | 1953 – 1954 1957-1961 |
Branch: | Yugoslav Air Force |
Type: | Squadron |
Role: | Training |
Command Structure: | 9th Air Command |
Garrison: | Zemunik |
Disbanded: | 1954 1961 |
The Light Combat Aviation Squadron of 9th Air Command (Serbo-Croatian: Vazduhoplovna eskadrila lake borbene avijacije 9. vazduhoplovne komande / Ваздухопловна ескадрила лаке борбене авијације 9. ваздухопловне команде) was an aviation squadron of Yugoslav Air Force formed in 1953 at Zemunik airfield as Training Squadron of 21st Aviation Division (Serbo-Croatian: Trenažna eskadrila 21. vazduhoplovne divizije / Тренажна ескадрила 21. ваздухопловне дивизије).
Squadron was part of 21st Aviation Division. It was equipped with US-made F-47D Thunderbolt fighter-bombers. It was disbanded in 1954 but again re-established in 1957 being reequipped with US-made T-33A Shooting Star jet trainer aircraft.[1]
In 1959 due to the Drvar reorganization this squadron became the Light Combat Aviation Squadron of 9th Air Command.
Squadron was disbanded in April 1961.[2]