552d AEWCW EC-121Ds at Korat RTAFB in 1968. The wing deployed aircraft to Florida during the Cuban Missile Crisis and its aftermath. It maintained Detachment 1 in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War between 1965 and 1970. Detachment 1 returned to Southeast Asia in 1971 to support Operation Linebacker and Operation Linebacker II operations. On ...

The Lockheed EC-121 Warning Star is an American airborne early warning and control radar surveillance aircraft operational in the 1950s in both the United States Navy (USN) and United States Air Force (USAF).

552d AIR CONTROL WING. E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft as well as ground-based Control and Reporting Centers. The wing provides combat-ready theater battle management forces at the direction of the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

2015年12月19日 · Five EC-121Ds and 100 support personnel of the 552nd AEWCW at McClellan Air Force Base, California, were deployed to Tainan Air Station, Taiwan, with four of the EC-121s sent on to a forward operating location at Tan Son Nhut Air …

The 966th Airborne Air Control Squadron is an active United States Air Force unit assigned to the 552d Air Control Wing at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma. It operates the Boeing E-3 Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft conducting training of crews in airborne command and control missions.

Major Mack speaks about the 552nd Airborne Early Warning Control Wing, at Ubon Air Base in Thailand during College Eye airborne radar surveillance mission. Major Mack stands next to EC-121 aircraft (552nd AEWCW). He talks about giving radar assistance to all friendly areas, providing border warning and emergency assistance.

Operational on 21 December 1954, the 551st AEWCW subsequently upgraded to EC-121D and later EC-121H Warning Stars. Its Pacific counterpart was the 552nd AEWCW, based at McClellan Air Force Base, California, which became operational on 1 July 1955.

The name of the task force was discontinued on 30 October 1968, when it was redesignated a final time as Detachment 1 (Rotational), 552nd AEWCW. The EC-121 deployments to Southeast Asia were discontinued in June 1970 in the expectation that they would no longer be utilized. Read more about this topic: Lockheed EC-121 Warning Star, Vietnam War. “...

In the winter of 1953, a dozen officers and airmen arrived at McClellan AFB to initiate a new concept in national defense-airborne early warning and control. They formed the first AEW&C Squadron, the 4701st, and received their first RC-121 "Flying Radar Station" in December.