61st Air Base Wing - Lineage and Assignments

Lineage and Assignments

Lineage

• Established as 61st Troop Carrier Wing, Medium, and activated, on 1 July 1948

Redesignated 61st Troop Carrier Wing, Heavy, on 15 August 1948

Inactivated on 2 June 1951

• Redesignated 61st Military Airlift Wing, and activated, on 27 December 1965

Organized on 8 January 1966, assuming equipment and personnel of 1502d Air Transport Wing

Redesignated 61st Military Airlift Support Wing on 22 December 1969

Inactivated 1 July 1993

• Redesignated 61st Air Base Wing and activated on 1 October 1994

Assignments

• United States Air Forces in Europe, 1 July 1948

Attached to: Berlin Airlift Task Force, 1-29 July 1948

Attached to: Airlift Task Force, 22 July-4 November 1948

Attached to: 1st Air Lift Task Force, 5 November 1948 – 9 July 1949

• 1st Air Lift Task Force, 10 July 1949
• United States Air Forces in Europe, 26 September 1949
• Twelfth Air Force, 21 January-2 June 1951
• Military Air Transport Service, 27 December 1965
• Twenty-Second Air Force, 8 January 1966 – 1 July 1993
• Space and Missile Systems Center, 1 October 1994–present