801st Radar Squadron

The 801st Radar Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 28th Air Division, Aerospace Defense Command, stationed at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana. It was inactivated on 1 July 1974.

The unit was a General Surveillance Radar squadron providing for the air defense of the United States.

Lineage

• Constituted as the 801st Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron on 6 July 1955

Activated on 8 October 1955

Redesignated 801st Radar Squadron (SAGE), 1 March 1961

Inactivated on 31 December 1969

Activated on 30 June 1971

Inactivated on 1 July 1974

Assignments

• 29th Air Division, 1 February 1956
• Great Falls Air Defense Sector, 1 July 1960
• 28th Air Division, 1 April 1966 - 31 December 1969
• 28th Air Division, 30 June 1971 - 1 July 1974

Stations

• Malmstrom AFB, MT, 1 February 1956 - 31 December 1969
• Malmstrom AFB, MT, 30 June 1971 - 1 July 1974

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).
• 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 US Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories, Champaign, IL (1997).

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