686th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron

Summary

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.

686th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
Emblem of the 686th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
Active1953-1963
CountryUnited States
Branch United States Air Force
TypeGeneral Radar Surveillance

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

Lineage edit

  • Established as the 686th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron
Activated on 1 October 1953
Discontinued and inactivated on 1 August 1963

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Stations edit

  • Walker AFB, New Mexico, 1 October 1953 – 1 August 1963

References edit

  This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency

  • Cornett, Lloyd H. and Johnson, Mildred W., A Handbook of Aerospace Defense Organization 1946 - 1980, [1] Archived 23 November 2006 at the Wayback Machine 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, [2][dead link] US Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories, Champaign, IL (1997).

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