| 413th Flight Test Squadron [1] | |
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413th Flight Test Squadron Patch |
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| Active | 15 January 1942 - 19 December 1945 17 July 1947 - 27 June 1949 1 November 1958 - 1 January 1962 1 December 1977 - 6 May 2004 25 February 2005 - Present |
| Country | United States |
| Branch | United States Air Force |
| Type | Flight Test |
| Part of | Air Force Material Command Air Force Flight Test Center 46th Test Wing 46th Operations Group |
| Garrison/HQ | Tinker Air Force Base |
| Engagements | World War II |
| Decorations | DUC AFOUA |
The 413th Flight Test Squadron (413 FLTS) is part of the 46th Test Wing and is based at Hurlburt Field, Florida. It performs flight testing on C-130 Hercules, MH-53 Pave Low, UH-1 Iroquois, and HH-60 Pave Hawk aircraft.
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The squadron planned, provided for, and conducted tests of electronic warfare and avionics systems and equipment, on aircraft assigned to the Air Force Flight Test Center between 1977 and 2004. It has planned, executed and managed Development and Qualification Test and Evaluation of fixed-wing aircraft assigned to Air Force Special Operations Command and of all Air Force helicopters since 2005.[1]
Established as a B-17 Flying Fortress heavy bomber squadron; trained under Second Air Force. Deployed to European Theater of Operations (ETO), assigned to VIII Bomber Command in England, Flew combat missions over Nazi Germany and Occupied Europe until the German capitulation in May 1945. It earned a Distinguished Unit Citation for a bombing raid on Regensburg, Germany, on 17 August 1943. It earned a second Distinguished Unit Citation for a raid on Poznań, Poland, on 9 April 1944.[1]
Activated as a reserve B-29 Superfortress squadron, 1947. Not equipped or manned; inactivated due to budget reductions, 1949.
The squadron was activated in November 1958 as a result of Strategic Air Command phasing out the B-47 Stratojet, and additional squadrons were activated as part of the consolation of Stratojet wings, and the replacement of the B-47 by B-52 Stratofortresses. In March 1961, President John F. Kennedy directed that the phaseout of the B-47 be accelerated. and the squadron was inactivated on 1 January 1962 as part of the drawdown of the USAF B-47 force, with the aircraft were sent to AMARC storage at Davis-Monthan.
Reactivated as a flight test squadron in 1992.
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This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Air Force Historical Research Agency.
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