776th Radar Squadron
The 776th Radar Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the Northeast [Air Defense Sector], Air Combat Command, stationed at Bangor [Air National Guard Base], Maine, where it was inactivated on 6 September 1991.
From 1951 to 1980, the unit was a General Surveillance Radar squadron providing for the air defense of North America. From 1985 to 1991, it operated Over The Horizion Backscatter radar for Tactical Air Command.
Lineage
- Constituted as the 776th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron on 14 November 1950
- Activated 1 October 1985
Assignments
- 542d Aircraft Control and Warning Group, 27 November 1950
- 28th Air Division, 6 February 1952
- San Francisco Air Defense Sector, 1 July 1960
- Portland Air Defense Sector, 1 August 1963
- 26th Air Division, 1 April 1966
- 27th Air Division, 15 September 1969
- 26th Air Division, 19 November 1969 - 30 September 1980
- 24th Air Division 1 October 1985
- Northeast Air Defense Sector, 1 December 1987 - 6 September 1991
- Point Arena Air Force Station, California, 1 January 1951 – 30 September 1980
- Bangor Air National Guard Base, Maine, 1 October 1985 – 6 September 1991