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The helicopter battalions are often grouped into aviation brigades. There are also a few fixed-wing aircraft battalions, consisting of training aircraft, Beechcraft RC-12 Guardrail operational aircraft, and Beechcraft C-12 Huron / Cessna UC-35 transports for VIP personnel.
This is a list of all of the active squadrons that exist in the United States Marine Corps, sorted by type. Most squadrons have changed names and designations many times over the years, so they are listed by their current designation. To see Marine Aviation units sorted by command hierarchy, see aviation combat element.
2nd Battalion, 1st Aviation Regiment [73] Company C, 1st Aviation Battalion: Fort Riley: 1981-1987: 3rd Battalion, 1st Aviation Regiment [74] Company B, 2nd Aviation Battalion: Fort Benning: 1963-1988: 2nd Battalion, 2nd Aviation Regiment [75] Company A, 3rd Aviation Battalion: Germany: 1963-1987: 1st Battalion, 3rd Aviation Regiment [76 ...
1st Battalion, 135th Aviation Regiment; 1st Battalion, 168th Aviation Regiment; 1st Attack Aviation Battalion, 211th Aviation Regiment (United States) 1st Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment (United States) 1st Aviation Battalion; 2d Assault Aviation Battalion, 25th Aviation Regiment (United States) 2d Battalion, 135th Aviation Regiment
All such units were disestablished with the post-war mothballing of escort carriers. The second wave, starting from 1945 and until the late 1950s, consisted of large units that provided detachments of specialized night attack, heavy attack, photographic reconnaissance, electronic warfare and airborne early warning aircraft to active carriers.
This is an organized list of all of the active aircraft squadrons that currently exist in the United States Air Force, sorted by type. Most squadrons have changed names and designations many times over the years, so they are listed by their current designation. Expeditionary and provisional units are not listed.
This is a list of active United States Navy aircraft squadrons. Deactivated or disestablished squadrons are listed in the list of inactive United States Navy aircraft squadrons . Navy aircraft squadrons are composed of several aircraft (from as few as about four to as many as about a dozen), the officers who fly them, the officers and sailors ...
These units vary widely in size and may include several hundred enlisted airmen commanded by an officer in the rank of captain to lieutenant colonel. A squadron may include two or three subordinate flights. In turn the squadron may be part of a group and then a wing.