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The 540th Aircraft Control and Warning Group 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 assigned to the 32d Air Division, stationed at Stewart Air Force Base, New York. It was inactivated on 6 February 1952. This command and control organization activated on 16 February 1953, and was responsible for the organization, manning and equipping of new Aircraft Control and Warning (Radar) units. It was dissolved after about a year, with the units being assigned directly to the 32d AD.


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* 653d Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron : Stewart AFB, New York, 1 March 1950 – 6 February 1952 * 654th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron : Brunswick AFS, Maine, 1 January 1951 – 6 February 1952 * 655th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron : Watertown AFS, New York, 1 June 1950 – 6 February 1952 * 656th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron : Saratoga Springs AFS, New York, 1 January 1951 – 6 February 1952 * 657th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron : Fort Williams, Maine, 1 January – 1 October 1951 * 690th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron :
Kirtland AFB Kirtland Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base. It is located in the southeast quadrant of the Albuquerque, New Mexico, urban area, adjacent to the Albuquerque International Sunport. The base was named for the early Army aviator C ...
, New Mexico, 1 May 1951 – 6 February 1952 (not manned or equipped) * 762d Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron : North Truro AFS, Massachusetts, 1 January 1951 – 6 February 1952 * 763d Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron : Lockport AFS, New York, 1 September 1951 – 6 February 1952 * 764th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron : Saint Albans AFS, Vermont, 1 September 1951 – 6 February 1952 * 765th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron : Charleston AFS, Maine, 1 January 1951 – 6 February 1952 *
766th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron Caswell Air Force Station is a closed United States Air Force General Surveillance Radar station. It is located north of Limestone, Maine. It was closed in 1980. History Caswell was one of twenty-eight stations built as part of the secon ...
: Caswell AFS, Maine, 1–6 February 1952 * 767th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron : Tierra Amarilla AFS, New Mexico, 1 January – 1 May 1951 * 768th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron : Moriarty AFS, New Mexico, 1 January – 1 May 1951 * 769th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron : Continental Divide AFS, New Mexico, 1 January – 1 May 1951


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List of United States Air Force aircraft control and warning squadrons This Article is a list of United States Air Force aircraft control and warning squadrons active, inactive, and historical. The purpose of an ''aircraft control and warning squadron'' is to provide an airborne radar picket to detect vessels, planes ...


References

* * Grant, C.L., The Development of Continental Air Defense to 1 September 1954, (1961), USAF Historical Study No. 126 * * {{Aerospace Defense Command, state=collapsed Aerospace Defense Command units Air control groups of the United States Air Force 1951 establishments in New York (state) 1952 disestablishments in New York (state)