686th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
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The 686th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the Oklahoma City Air Defense Sector, Aerospace Defense Command, stationed at Walker Air Force Base, New Mexico. It was inactivated on 1 August 1963.
The unit was a General Surveillance Radar squadron providing for the air defense of the United States.
Lineage
- Established as the 686th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
: Activated on 1 October 1953
: Discontinued and inactivated on 1 August 1963
Assignments
- 34th Air Division, 1 October 1953
- Albuquerque Air Defense Sector, 1 January 1960
- Oklahoma City Air Defense Sector, 15 September 1960
- 4752d Air Defense Wing, 1 September 1961
- Oklahoma City Air Defense Sector, 25 June – 1 August 1963
Stations
- Walker AFB, New Mexico, 1 October 1953 – 1 August 1963
References
{{Air Force Historical Research Agency}}
{{Reflist}}
- Cornett, Lloyd H. and Johnson, Mildred W., A Handbook of Aerospace Defense Organization 1946 – 1980, [http://www.usafpatches.com/pubs/handbookofadcorg.pdf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061123115752/http://www.usafpatches.com/pubs/handbookofadcorg.pdf |date=23 November 2006 }} Office of History, Aerospace Defense Center, Peterson AFB, CO (1980).
- Winkler, David F. & Webster, Julie L., Searching the Skies, The Legacy of the United States Cold War Defense Radar Program, [http://www.dtic.mil/cgi-bn/GetTRDoc?Location=U2&doc=GetTRDoc.pdf&AD=ADA331231]{{dead link|date=January 2025|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}} US Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories, Champaign, IL (1997).
External links
{{Aerospace Defense Command|state=collapsed}}