54th Helicopter Squadron

54th Helicopter Squadron
A helicopter of the 54th takes off at Minot en route to Columbus Air Force Base in 2005
Active	???-present
Country	United States
Branch	United States Air Force
Part of	Air Force Global Strike Command

The 54th Helicopter Squadron is a unit of the United States Air Force based at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota. It is currently part of the 582d Helicopter Group.^[1]

Lineage

• Constituted as the 54th Air Rescue Squadron on 17 October 1952

Activated on 14 November 1952

Inactivated on 18 June 1960

Activated on 18 June 1961

• Redesignated 54th Air Recovery Squadron on 1 July 1965
• Redesignated 54th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron on 8 January 1966

Inactivated on 1 July 1974

• Redesignated 54th Rescue Flight

Activated on 1 May 1993

• Redesignated 54th Helicopter Flight on 1 May 1998
• Redesignated 54th Helicopter Squadron on 8 October 2005^[1]

Assignments

• 6th Air Rescue Group, 14 Nov 1952
• Air Rescue Service, 18 February 1958 – 18 June 1960
• Military Air Transport Service, 10 May 1961 (not organized)
• Air Rescue Service(later Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Service), 18 June 1961
• 39th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Wing, 1 January 1970 - 15 July 1974
• 91st Operations Group, 1 May 1993
• 91st Missile Group, 1 Jul 1994
• 91st Operations Group, 1 Feb 1996 - 5 January 2015^[1] (attached to Twentieth Air Force Helicopter Operations Group after August 2014)
• 582d Helicopter Group: 5 January 2015

Stations

• Goose Bay Airport (later Goose Air Base), Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, 14 November 1952 - 18 Jun 1960
• Goose Air Base, Canada, 18 Jun 1961
• Pease Air Force Base, New Hampshire, 1 August 1967 - 15 July 1974
• Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota 1 May 1993 – present^[1]

Aircraft

• Grumman SA-16 Albatross (later HU-16), 1952-1957, 1961-1963
• Boeing SB-17 Dumbo, 1952-1953
• Douglas SC-47 Skytrain, 1952-1955;
• Sikorsky H-5, 1952-1954
• Sikorsky H-19, 1955-1956
• Sikorsky SH-19 (later HH-19), 1961-1963
• Piaseki SH-21B Work Horse, 1956-1960, 1961-1962
• Douglas SC-54 Skymaster (later HC-54), 1957-1960, 1961-1966
• Kamen SH- 43 (later HH-43Husky), 1961-1967
• Lockheed HC-130 Hercules, 1966-1974
• Sikorsky HH-3, 1972-1973
• Bell UH-1 Iroquois, 1993
• Bell HH-1, 1993
• Bell UH-1N, 1996–present^[1]

References

Notes

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