11th Airlift Squadron


The 11th Airlift Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was most recently part of the 375th Airlift Wing as Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. It operated McDonnell Douglas C-9 Nightingale aircraft conducting medical evacuation missions.

History

World War II

The first predecessor of the squadron was organized in April 1942 at Hensley Field, Texas as the 11th Air Corps Ferrying Squadron and assigned to the Middle West Sector of Air Corps Ferrying Command's Domestic Wing. Hensley, located in Grand Prairie, Texas was the location of a Chance Vought Aircraft factory, and a short distance from Fort Worth Army Air Field, where Consolidated Aircraft had a plant. The 11th ferried aircraft from the factories to modification centers and operational units mostly within the Continental United States from, April 1942-March 1944.

Aeromedical airlift

In 1956, Military Air Transport Service replaced its table of distribution aeromedical evacuation units with permanent units. As part of this action, the 1731st Air Transport Squadron, which had been organized at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois on 1 June 1952, was discontinued and its personnel and Convair C-131 Samaritans 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
; 11th Airlift Squadron
  • Constituted as the 11th Aeromedical Transport Squadron, Light on 18 October 1956

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Aircraft