17th Airlift Squadron - Lineage

Lineage

• Constituted as the 17th Air Corps Ferrying Squadron on February 18 1942

Activated on April 27 1942

Redesignated the 17th Transport Squadron on March 19 1943

Disbanded on October 31 1943

• Reconstituted, and redesignated the 17th Air Transport Squadron, Medium on March 22 1954

Activated on July 18 1954

Redesignated the 17th Air Transport Squadron, Heavy on June 18 1958

Redesignated the 17th Military Airlift Squadron on January 8 1966

Inactivated on April 8 1969

• Activated on August 1 1987

Redesignated the 17th Airlift Squadron on October 1 1991

Note: the 17th Airlift Squadron already existed at the time of redesignation as a C-130 squadron based at Elmendorf AFB, Alaska. This unit originated from the 17th Troop Carrier Squadron under Alaskan Air Command in 1964. The squadron was redesignated the 17th Tactical Airlift Squadron in 1966. It was redesignated the 517th Airlift Squadron upon activation of the C-17 unit that took its name. In January 2006 the 517th Airlift Squadron began its own transition from C-130s to C-17s with the final C-130 leaving the unit on March 26 2007.