147th Air Refueling Squadron
The 147th Air Refueling Squadron is a United States Air Force unit assigned to the 171st Air Refueling Wing, Pennsylvania Air National Guard. It is stationed at Pittsburgh IAP Air Reserve Station, Pennsylvania.
Overview
The squadron flies the KC-135T Stratotanker and deploys where needed on a worldwide basis.
History
Activated on 1 October 1942 at RAF Duxford, England as the 346th Fighter Squadron. Initially assigned to VIII Fighter Command, reassigned to Twelfth Air Force and engaged in combat in the North African Campaign and later based in Italy as part of the Mediterranean Theater of Operations (MTO). Engaged in combat during Sicilian and Italian Campaigns, also flew combat missions from Sardinia and in the Rhone Valley of France, 1944. Inactivated November 1945 and allocated to Pennsylvania Air National Guard, 1946, being re-designated 147th Fighter Squadron.
Assigned to 112th Fighter Group at Pittsburgh Airport and operationally gained by Air Defense Command, 1947-1964. February 1964 re-assigned to new PA ANG 171st Air Transport Group at Pittsburgh IAP and re-designated 147th Air Transport Squadron, being re-equipped with C-121 Constellation as a component of the Military Air Transport Service (MATS). In 1968, the unit was redesignated as the 147th Aeromedical Airlift squadron as part of Military Airlift Command (MAC), the first of its kind in the Air National Guard (ANG) and re-equipped with the C-131 Samaritan. Was deployed to South Vietnam to move patients from casualty staging bases and military installations to destination treatment hospitals.
Was redesignated as the 147th Air Refueling Squadron in October 1972, transitioning to the KC-97L Stratotanker. Upgraded in 1976 to KC-135 Stratotanker, has maintained an air refueling mission ever since.
Lineage
- 147th Fighter Squadron, 1947-1952
- 147th Fighter-Bomber Squadron, 1952-1955
- 147th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, 1955-1964
- 147th Air Transport Squadron, 1964-1968
- 147th Aeromedical Airlift squadron, 1968-1972
- 147th Air Refueling Squadron, 1972-Present
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References
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This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Air Force Historical Research Agency.
- ^ World Airpower Journal. (1992). US Air Force Air Power Directory. Aerospace Publishing: London, UK. ISBN 1-880588-01-3
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