54th Helicopter Squadron
| 54th Helicopter Squadron | |
|---|---|
 A helicopter of the 54th takes off at Minot en route to Columbus Air Force Base in 2005 | |
| Active | ???-present |
| Country |
 United States |
| Branch |
 United States Air Force |
| Part of | Air Force Global Strike Command |
The 54th Helicopter Squadron is a unit of the United States Air Force based at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota. It is currently part of the 582d Helicopter Group.[1]
Lineage
- Constituted as the 54th Air Rescue Squadron on 17 October 1952
- Activated on 14 November 1952
- Inactivated on 18 June 1960
- Activated on 18 June 1961
- Redesignated 54th Air Recovery Squadron on 1 July 1965
- Redesignated 54th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron on 8 January 1966
- Inactivated on 1 July 1974
- Redesignated 54th Rescue Flight
- Activated on 1 May 1993
- Redesignated 54th Helicopter Flight on 1 May 1998
- Redesignated 54th Helicopter Squadron on 8 October 2005[1]
Assignments
- 6th Air Rescue Group, 14 Nov 1952
- Air Rescue Service, 18 February 1958 – 18 June 1960
- Military Air Transport Service, 10 May 1961 (not organized)
- Air Rescue Service(later Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Service), 18 June 1961
- 39th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Wing, 1 January 1970 - 15 July 1974
- 91st Operations Group, 1 May 1993
- 91st Missile Group, 1 Jul 1994
- 91st Operations Group, 1 Feb 1996 - 5 January 2015[1] (attached to Twentieth Air Force Helicopter Operations Group after August 2014)
- 582d Helicopter Group: 5 January 2015
Stations
- Goose Bay Airport (later Goose Air Base), Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, 14 November 1952 - 18 Jun 1960
- Goose Air Base, Canada, 18 Jun 1961
- Pease Air Force Base, New Hampshire, 1 August 1967 - 15 July 1974
- Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota 1 May 1993 – present[1]
Aircraft
- Grumman SA-16 Albatross (later HU-16), 1952-1957, 1961-1963
- Boeing SB-17 Dumbo, 1952-1953
- Douglas SC-47 Skytrain, 1952-1955;
- Sikorsky H-5, 1952-1954
- Sikorsky H-19, 1955-1956
- Sikorsky SH-19 (later HH-19), 1961-1963
- Piaseki SH-21B Work Horse, 1956-1960, 1961-1962
- Douglas SC-54 Skymaster (later HC-54), 1957-1960, 1961-1966
- Kamen SH- 43 (later HH-43Husky), 1961-1967
- Lockheed HC-130 Hercules, 1966-1974
- Sikorsky HH-3, 1972-1973
- Bell UH-1 Iroquois, 1993
- Bell HH-1, 1993
- Bell UH-1N, 1996–present[1]
References
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