World War II The
27th Ferrying Squadron was first activated in July 1942 at
Presque Isle Army Air Field, Maine, but moved within a week to
New Castle Army Air Base, Delaware, where it was assigned to the
2d Ferrying Group. It served primarily to deliver aircraft from manufacturers to operational or training units. However, by 1944 the
Army Air Forces was finding that organizations using rigid
tables of organization were proving inefficient in performing logistic support and training missions. Accordingly, it adopted a more functional organization in which each base was grouped into a single organization. At the end of March 1944, the 2d Ferrying Group, its squadrons (including the 27th) and all support organizations at New Castle were combined into the 552d Army Air Forces Base Unit, which absorbed their personnel and equipment and continued the ferrying mission.
Strategic Air Command The
27th Air Refueling Squadron was activated at
Bergstrom Air Force Base, Texas, in October 1953 and assigned to the
27th Strategic Fighter Wing. The mission of the unit was to provide global refueling for the
Strategic Air Command (SAC) 27th and
12th Strategic Fighter Wings at Bergstrom and other USAF units as directed. The unit was inactivated in 1957 shortly after SAC transferred its fighters to
Tactical Air Command and a SAC refueling unit was no longer required to support them.
Tactical Air Support The
27th Tactical Air Support Squadron was activated at
Davis–Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona in July 1977, but inactivated three years later when the
23rd Tactical Air Support Squadron moved from Bergstrom to Davis-Monthan along with the 602d Tactical Air Control Wing and assumed the 27th's mission, personnel and equipment. It was activated again in May 1984 at
George Air Force Base, California. In September 1985, the 27th Air Refueling Squadron and 27th Ferrying Squadron were consolidated with 27th Tactical Air Support Squadron. ==Lineage==