The 644th Radar Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 20th Air Division, Aerospace Defense Command, stationed at Richmond Air Force Station, Florida. It was inactivated on 1 April 1978.
The unit was a General Surveillance Radar squadron providing for the air defense of the United States.
Lineage
Activated as the 644th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron, 1 October 1954
Inactivated on 1 October 1957
Redesignated 644th Radar Squadron (SAGE) Activated 25 April 1960 Redesignated 644th Radar Squadron, 1 February 1974 Inactivated on 1 April 1978
Assignments
4707th Air Defense Wing, 1 October 1954
4622d Air Defense Wing, 18 October 1956
Boston Air Defense Sector, 8 January 1957
Montgomery Air Defense Sector, 25 April 1960
32d Air Division, 1 April 1966
33d Air Division, 14 November 1969
20th Air Division, 19 November 1969 – 1 April 1978
Stations
Syracuse AFS*, New York, 1 October 1954
Portsmouth AFS, New Hampshire (renamed Rye AFS, New Hampshire, 1 July 1956), 1 July 1955 - 1 October 1957 Richmond AFS, Florida, 26 April 1960 – 1 April 1978
.* Not manned or equipped
References
Cornett, Lloyd H. and Johnson, Mildred W., A Handbook of Aerospace Defense Organization 1946 - 1980, Office of History, Aerospace Defense Center, Peterson AFB, CO (1980 Winkler, David F. & Webster, Julie L., Searching the Skies, The Legacy of the United States Cold War Defense Radar Program, US Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratories, Champaign, IL (1997)