The 801st Radar Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 28th Air Division, Aerospace Defense Command, stationed at Malmstrom Air Force Base, Montana. It was inactivated on 1 July 1974.
The unit was a General Surveillance Radar squadron providing for the air defense of the United States.
Lineage
Constituted as the 801st Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron on 6 July 1955
Activated on 8 October 1955
Redesignated 801st Radar Squadron (SAGE), 1 March 1961
Inactivated on 31 December 1969
Activated on 30 June 1971
Inactivated on 1 July 1974
Assignments
29th Air Division, 1 February 1956
Great Falls Air Defense Sector, 1 July 1960
28th Air Division, 1 April 1966 - 31 December 1969
28th Air Division, 30 June 1971 - 1 July 1974
Stations
Malmstrom AFB, MT, 1 February 1956 - 31 December 1969
Malmstrom AFB, MT, 30 June 1971 - 1 July 1974
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).