The 443d Airlift Wing is an inactive unit of the United States Air Force. Its last assignment was with Air Mobility Command, being stationed at Altus Air Force Base, Oklahoma. It was inactivated on October 1, 1992.
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443d Airlift Wing
443d Military Airlift Wing, Training Patch
Active
1949–1953; 1965–1992
Country
United States
Branch
United States Air Force
Role
Heavy Airlift Training
Garrison/HQ
Military Airlift Command
Military unit
USAF C-124 Globemaster IIC-141A Graduating Class, 1970s (66-0179 in background)C-5A Galaxy 66-8306 in Euro-1 Camouflage
History
For additional history and lineage, see 443d Operations Group
In 1949, the 443d Troop Carrier Wing, Medium was established and trained as a Reserve troop-carrier wing under supervision of the 2596th Air Force Reserve Training Center, June 1949 – April 1951.
The 443d was brought to active duty at Donaldson AFB, South Carolina on August 9, 1951, as a training wing by Tactical Air Command. For almost two years, the 443d participated in tactical exercises in operations, training troop-carrier aircrews using C-46 Commandos for assignment to the Far East, and worked closely with other troop-carrier groups to test and evaluate new troop-carrier doctrine and procedures. With the nearing end of the Korean War, the 443d was inactivated on January 8, 1953.
In January 1966, Military Airlift Command (MAC) reactivated the 443d at Tinker AFB, Oklahoma, replacing the inactivated Military Air Transport Service 1707th Air Transport Wing, Heavy. The 443d became the primary USAF wing charged with training air and ground crews of C-124 Globemaster II and the new C-141 Starlifter heavy transports, while simultaneously maintaining a capability to perform airlift operations worldwide.
With the retirement of the prop-driven C-124 Globemaster II from active service, training diminished in 1967 and ceased in 1968, being replaced by training air and ground crews on the new C-5 Galaxy, a very heavy-lift transport, in 1969. The wing moved from Tinker AFB, Oklahoma to Altus AFB, Oklahoma, in 1969. The wing performed this training mission until 1992 when C-5 and C-141 training was consolidated after the end of the Cold War.
Air Mobility Command reorganized Air Force Airlift units in 1992, and the 443d was inactivated on October 1, 1992, as part of the Air Force Heritage program, where notable units were retained and reassigned after the Cold War.
The new 97th Air Mobility Wing, a former Eighth Air Force World War II bombardment group, and later Strategic Air Command bomb wing, absorbed the personnel, equipment and aircraft of the 443d upon its inactivation in an administrative transfer.
Lineage
Established as 443d Troop Carrier Wing, Medium, on May 10, 1949
Activated in the Reserve on June 27, 1949
Ordered to active service on May 1, 1951
Inactivated on January 8, 1953
Redesignated 443d Military Airlift Wing, Training, and activated, on December 27, 1965
Organized on January 8, 1966
Inactivated October 1, 1992, personnel and equipment assumed by the new 97th Air Mobility Wing
Converted to provisional status and redesignated 443d Air Expeditionary Wing on 12 June 2002[1]
Assignments
Twelfth Air Force, 27 June 1949
Fourteenth Air Force, 1 July 1950
Tactical Air Command, May 2, 1951
Eighteenth Air Force, June 1, 1951 – January 8, 1953
Military Air Transport Service (later, Military Airlift Command), December 27, 1965
Twenty-Second Air Force, April 1, 1973 – June 1, 1992
Air Mobility Command to activate or inactivate as needed on 12 June 2002[1]
Stations
Hensley Field, Texas, June 27, 1949
Donaldson AFB, South Carolina, August 9, 1951 – January 8, 1953
Tinker AFB, Oklahoma, January 8, 1966
Altus AFB, Oklahoma, May 5, 1969 – October 1, 1992
Components
Groups
443d Troop Carrier Group: June 27, 1949 – January 8, 1953
443d Operations Group: October 1, 1991 – October 1, 1992
Squadrons
56th Military Airlift Squadron (Training): January 8, 1966 – October 1, 1992 (C-124A/C 1966-68, and, C-5A/B 1969-92)
57th Military Airlift Squadron (Training): January 8, 1966 – October 1, 1992 (C-141A/B)
Aircraft Assigned
C-46 Commando, 1949–1952
C-119 Flying Boxcar, 1952–1953
C-124 Globemaster II, 1966–1968
C-141 Starlifter, 1966–1992
C-5 Galaxy, 1969–1992
Notes
DAF/XPM Letter 303s, 12 June 2002, Subject: Air Mobility Command Expeditionary Units
References
This article incorporatespublic domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agencywebsite https://www.afhra.af.mil/.
Ravenstein, Charles A. (1984). Air Force Combat Wings Lineage and Honors Histories 1947–1977. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. ISBN0-912799-12-9.
Rogers, Brian (2005). United States Air Force Unit Designations Since 1978. Hinkley, England: Midland Publications. ISBN1-85780-197-0.
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Air Mobility Command
Numbered Air Forces
Eighteenth (Transportation)
Command Organizations
618th Air and Space Operations Center (Tanker Airlift Control Center)
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