29th Test and Evaluation Squadron

The 29th Test and Evaluation Squadron has personnel located at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida and 11 geographically separated units around the nation: Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana; Beale Air Force Base, California; Creech Air Force Base, Nevada; Dyess Air Force Base, Texas; Hill Air Force Base, Utah; Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska; Robins Air Force Base, Georgia; Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma; Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida and Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri as well as an operating location in Mesa, Arizona. The squadron serves as the combat air force's center of expertise for aircrew training devices. Squadron personnel provide technical expertise on all aspects of ATD life-cycle management, including acquisition, modification, acceptance testing and certification testing for all A-10, B-1, B-2, B-52, E-3, E-4, E-8, EC-130, F-15C/E, F-16, F-22, F-35, HH-60, HC-130, MQ-1/9, RC-135, RQ-4 and U-2 ATDs. Unit personnel also manage the CAF simulator certification program. The squadron's efforts incorporate ATD oversight and management from concept development and preliminary design review through sustainment and program deactivation. ==History==

World War I The first predecessor of the squadron was the 29th Aero Squadron, which was organized at Camp Knox, Kentucky, in the fall of 1918, shortly before the end of World War I. It was equipped with Curtiss JN-4 and Curtiss JN-6H aircraft, which it apparently operated from Camp Knox's airfield, Godman Field, as the aerial support unit for a field artillery brigade until it was demobilized in September 1919. These planes returned to Malmstrom after the crisis. It was inactivated in July 1968 as part of the drawdown of ADC interceptor bases, and the aircraft were passed along to the Air National Guard. ==Lineage==

; 29th Aero Squadron • Organized as the 29th Aero Squadron on 10 October 1918 : Demobilized 12 September 1919 : Reconstituted on 5 March 1935 and consolidated with the 29th Pursuit Squadron as the 29th Pursuit Squadron Stations • Camp Knox (later Godman Field), Kentucky, 10 October 1918 – 12 September 1919 • Albrook Field, Panama Canal Zone, 1 October 1933 • Casa Larga Airfield, Panama, 17 May 1942 – 25 March 1944 • Lincoln Army Air Field, Nebraska, 8 April – 25 May 1944 • Palmdale Army Air Field, California, 21 July 1944 • Bakersfield Municipal Airport, California, 5 August 1944 • Oxnard Flight Strip, California, 9 September 1944 • Santa Maria Army Air Field, California, 10 July 1945 • March Field, California, 6 December 1945 – 3 July 1946 • Great Falls Air Force Base (later Malmstrom Air Force Base), Montana, 8 November 1953 – 1 July 1968 • Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, 15 April 1993 – present Aircraft • Curtiss JN-4, 1918–1919 • Curtiss JN-6H, 1918–1919 • Boeing P-12, 1933–1939 • Boeing P-26 Peashooter, 1933–1939 • Curtiss P-36 Hawk, 1939–1941 • Curtiss P-40 Warhawk, 1941–1944 • Bell P-39 Airacobra, 1942–1944 • North American A-36 Apache, 1944 • Bell P-63 Kingcobra, 1944 • Douglas A-24 Banshee, 1944–1945 • Lockheed P-38 Lightning, 1944–1945 • Bell P-59 Airacomet, 1944–1945 • North American P-51 Mustang, 1945–1946 • Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star, 1945–1946. • Lockheed F-94C Starfire, 1953–1957 • Northrop F-89H Scorpion, 1957–1958 • Northrop F-89J Scorpion, 1958–1960 • McDonnell F-101B Voodoo, 1960–1968 ==See also==