The 11th Airlift Squadron is an inactive

United States Air Force The United States Air Force (USAF) is the Air force, air service branch of the United States Department of Defense. It is one of the six United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. Tracing its ori ...

unit. It was most recently part of the 375th Airlift Wing as

Scott Air Force Base Scott Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base in St. Clair County, Illinois, near Belleville and O'Fallon, east-southeast of downtown St. Louis. Originally Scott Field, it was one of 32 Air Service training camps established af ...

, Illinois. It operated McDonnell Douglas C-9 Nightingale aircraft conducting

medical evacuation Medical evacuation, often shortened to medevac or medivac, is the timely and efficient movement and en route care provided by medical personnel to patients requiring evacuation or transport using medically equipped air ambulances, helicopters and ...

missions.

History

World War II

The first predecessor of the squadron was organized in April 1942 at

Hensley Field The Grand Prairie Armed Forces Reserve Complex or Grand Prairie AFRC (formerly Naval Air Station Dallas or Hensley Field) is a former United States Navy Naval Air Station located on Mountain Creek Lake in southwest Dallas. The installation was ...

, Texas as the 11th Air Corps Ferrying Squadron and assigned to the Middle West Sector of

Air Corps Ferrying Command Air Transport Command (ATC) was a United States Air Force unit that was created during World War II as the strategic airlift component of the United States Army Air Forces. It had two main missions, the first being the delivery of supplies a ...

's Domestic Wing. Hensley, located in

Grand Prairie Grand Prairie is a city in the U.S. state of Texas, located in Dallas, Tarrant, and Ellis counties with a small part extending into Johnson county. It is part of the Mid-Cities region in the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex. It had a popul ...

, Texas was the location of a Chance Vought Aircraft factory, and a short distance from

Fort Worth Army Air Field Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth (abbreviated NAS JRB Fort Worth) includes Carswell Field, a military airbase located west of the central business district of Fort Worth, in Tarrant County, Texas, United States. This military ...

, where

Consolidated Aircraft The Consolidated Aircraft Corporation was founded in 1923 in aviation, 1923 by Reuben H. Fleet in Buffalo, New York, the result of the Gallaudet Aircraft Company's liquidation and Fleet's purchase of designs from the Dayton-Wright Company as the ...

had a plant. The 11th ferried aircraft from the factories to modification centers and operational units mostly within the

Continental United States The contiguous United States, also known as the U.S. mainland, officially referred to as the conterminous United States, consists of the 48 adjoining U.S. states and the District of Columbia of the United States in central North America. The te ...

from, April 1942-March 1944.

Aeromedical airlift

In 1956,

Military Air Transport Service The Military Air Transport Service (MATS) is an inactive United States Department of Defense, Department of Defense Unified Command. Activated on 1 June 1948, MATS was a consolidation of the United States Navy's Naval Air Transport Service (NA ...

replaced its table of distribution (4-digit)

aeromedical evacuation Aeromedical evacuation (AE) is the use of military transport aircraft to carry wounded personnel. The first recorded British ambulance flight took place in 1917 in the Sinai Peninsula some 30 miles south of El Arish when a Royal Aircraft ...

units with permanent units. As part of this action, the 1731st Air Transport Squadron (Aeromedical Evacuation), which had been organized at

, Illinois on 1 June 1952, was discontinuedMueller, p. 518 and its personnel and

Convair C-131 Samaritan The Convair C-131 Samaritan is an American twin-engined military transport produced from 1954 to 1956 by Convair. It is the military version of the Convair CV-240 family of airliners.Gradidge 1997, p. 20–21. This was one of the last radial en ...

s were transferred to the newly-activated 11th Aeromedical Transport Squadron. The squadron missions included transport of wounded Afghan soldiers and civilians from 1986 to 1987."

Lineage

; 11th Ferrying Squadron * Constituted as the 11th Air Corps Ferrying Squadron on 18 February 1942 : Activated on 16 April 1942 : Redesignated 11th Ferrying Squadron on 12 May 1943 : Disbanded on 1 April 1944. : Reconstituted and consolidated with the 11th Aeromedical Airlift Squadron as the 11th Aeromedical Airlift Squadron on 19 September 1985 ; 11th Airlift Squadron * Constituted as the 11th Aeromedical Transport Squadron, Light on 18 October 1956 : Activated on 8 November 1956 : Redesignated: 11th Aeromedical Transport Squadron on 25 July 1964 : Redesignated 11th Aeromedical Airlift Squadron on 12 January 1966 : Consolidated with the 11th Ferrying Squadron on 19 September 1985 : Redesignated 11th Airlift Squadron on 1 October 1993 : Inactivated on 30 September 2003

Assignments

* iddle West Sector, Air Corps Ferrying Command (laterMiddle West Sector, Domestic Wing, AAF Ferrying Command,

5th Ferrying Group 5 (five) is a number, numeral and digit. It is the natural number, and cardinal number, following 4 and preceding 6, and is a prime number. Humans, and many other animals, have 5 digits on their limbs. Mathematics 5 is a Fermat pri ...

]), 16 April 1942 – 1 April 1944 *

1st Aeromedical Transport Group First most commonly refers to: * First, the ordinal form of the number 1 First or 1st may also refer to: Acronyms * Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters, an astronomical survey carried out by the Very Large Array * Far Infrared a ...

, 8 November 1956 *

1405th Aeromedical Transport Wing Fourteen or 14 may refer to: * 14 (number), the natural number following 13 and preceding 15 * one of the years 14 BC, AD 14, 1914, 2014 Music * 14th (band), a British electronic music duo * ''14'' (David Garrett album), 2013 *''14'', an unrel ...

, 8 June 1964 *

375th Aeromedical Airlift Wing The 375th Air Mobility Wing (375 AMW) is a unit of the United States Air Force stationed at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois and assigned to Eighteenth Air Force under Air Mobility Command (AMC). The wing has four primary missions. It supports ...

(later 375th Military Airlift Wing), 12 January 1966 *

375th Operations Group The 375th Operations Group (375 OG) is the operational flying component of the United States Air Force 375th Air Mobility Wing. It is stationed at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. The unit's World War II predecessor unit, the 375th Troop Carrie ...

, 1 December 1991 – 30 September 2003

Stations

* Hensley Field, Texas, 16 April 1942 * Love Field, Texas, 8 September 1942 – 1 April 1944 * Scott Air Force Base, Illinois, 8 Nov 1956 – 30 September 2003

Aircraft

* Convair C-131 Samaritan (1956–1970) *

Douglas C-118 Liftmaster The Douglas DC-6 is a piston-powered airliner and cargo aircraft built by the Douglas Aircraft Company from 1946 to 1958. Originally intended as a military transport near the end of World War II, Douglas reworked it after the war to compete wi ...

(1956–1970) *

Douglas C-9 Nightingale The McDonnell Douglas DC-9 is an American five-abreast, single-aisle aircraft designed by the Douglas Aircraft Company. It was initially produced as the Douglas DC-9 prior to August 1967, after which point the company had merged with McDonnell A ...

(1968–2005)

Notes

Bibliography

* * {{US Air Force navbox 0011 Military units and formations established in 1956