54th Helicopter Squadron

The 54th Helicopter Squadron is a unit of the United States Air Force based at Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota. It is currently part of the 582d Helicopter Group.

Lineage

 * Constituted as the 54th Air Rescue Squadron on 17 October 1952
 * Activated on 14 November 1952
 * Inactivated on 18 June 1960
 * Activated on 18 June 1961


 * Redesignated 54th Air Recovery Squadron on 1 July 1965
 * Redesignated 54th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Squadron on 8 January 1966
 * Inactivated on 1 July 1974


 * Redesignated 54th Rescue Flight
 * Activated on 1 May 1993


 * Redesignated 54th Helicopter Flight on 1 May 1998
 * Redesignated 54th Helicopter Squadron on 8 October 2005

Assignments

 * 6th Air Rescue Group, 14 Nov 1952
 * Air Rescue Service, 18 February 1958 – 18 June 1960
 * Military Air Transport Service, 10 May 1961 (not organized)
 * Air Rescue Service(later Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Service), 18 June 1961
 * 39th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Wing, 1 January 1970 - 15 July 1974
 * 91st Operations Group, 1 May 1993
 * 91st Missile Group, 1 Jul 1994
 * 91st Operations Group, 1 Feb 1996 - 5 January 2015 (attached to Twentieth Air Force Helicopter Operations Group after August 2014)
 * 582d Helicopter Group: 5 January 2015

Stations

 * Goose Bay Airport (later Goose Air Base), Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada, 14 November 1952 - 18 Jun 1960
 * Goose Air Base, Canada, 18 Jun 1961
 * Pease Air Force Base, New Hampshire, 1 August 1967 - 15 July 1974
 * Minot Air Force Base, North Dakota 1 May 1993 – present

Aircraft

 * Grumman SA-16 Albatross (later HU-16), 1952-1957, 1961-1963
 * Boeing SB-17 Dumbo, 1952-1953
 * Douglas SC-47 Skytrain, 1952-1955;
 * Sikorsky H-5, 1952-1954
 * Sikorsky H-19, 1955-1956
 * Sikorsky SH-19 (later HH-19), 1961-1963
 * Piaseki SH-21B Work Horse, 1956-1960, 1961-1962
 * Douglas SC-54 Skymaster (later HC-54), 1957-1960, 1961-1966
 * Kamen SH- 43 (later HH-43Husky), 1961-1967
 * Lockheed HC-130 Hercules, 1966-1974
 * Sikorsky HH-3, 1972-1973
 * Bell UH-1 Iroquois, 1993
 * Bell HH-1, 1993
 * Bell UH-1N, 1996–present