330th Aircraft Sustainment Wing

330th Aircraft Sustainment Wing
330th Aircraft Sustainment Wing
	Emblem of the 330th Aircraft Sustainment Wing
Active	1949-1951; 1952; 2005-2010
Country	United States
Branch	Air Force
Type	Equipment Support
Part of	Air Force Materiel Command

The 330th Aircraft Sustainment Wing was a wing of the United States Air Force based at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia.

Mission

The group served as single focal point for cradle-to-grave sustainment management for the C-130 aircraft to sustain mission effectiveness throughout the system's life cycle. Responsible for all sustainment activities required to ensure C-130 aircraft availability was adequate for the weapon system to fulfill its assigned missions.

Primary activities included engineering, worldwide logistics, weapon system readiness, and wartime support. Managed aircraft overhaul, modernization and modification programs, and unscheduled depot level maintenance for the C-130 aircraft to include foreign military sales.

The 330 ASW also provided weapon system logistics support, oversaw unscheduled and programmed depot maintenance, and managed modification efforts for the Air Force's fleet of C-5, C-130, C-17, F-15, U-2, and E-8C Joint STARS aircraft, Global Hawk, Distributed Common Ground System (DCGS), MC-130, HC-130 and various special operations combat search and rescue aircraft and helicopters to include AC-130H/U, MC-130E/H/P/W, EC-130J, MH-53J/M, HH-60G, UH-1N, TH-1H, and HC-130P/N.

History

Air Force Reserve

With the end of World War II, the 330th was allocated to the Air Force Reserve. It was redesignated as the 330th Bombardment Group (Medium) and assigned to March Air Force Base, California for training with B-29 Superfortresses of the active-duty Strategic Air Command 22d Bombardment Wing, being activated on 27 June 1949. The wing was assigned to Fifteenth Air Force on 27 June 1949. As a result of the Korean War its personnel were activated into Federal Service on 1 May 1951 and deployed to Kadena AB, Okinawa for combat duty. . With its personnel deployed overseas, the wing was inactivated on 16 June.

The 330th was again redesignated as the 330th Troop Carrier Group (Medium) and allotted to 1st Air Reserve District at Greater Pittsburgh Airport, Pennsylvania on 14 Jun 1952. The unit may have just existed on paper and wasn't manned. It was also possibly equipped with Curtiss C-46 Commando aircraft. Nevertheless, it was inactivated on 14 Jul 1952.

Reactivated in 2005 as a Depot Support Wing at Robins AFB.

The 330th Aircraft Sustainment Wing was inactivated on 30 July 2010.

Lineage

Constituted as the 330th Bombardment Wing, Medium on 16 May 1949

Activated in the reserve on 27 June 1949

Ordered to active duty on 1 May 1951

Inactivated on 16 Jun 1951

Redesignated 330th Troop Carrier Wing, Medium on 26 May 1952

Activated in the reserve on 14 June 1952

Inactivated on 14 July 1952^[1]

Redesignated 330th Military Airlift Wing on 31 July 1985
Redesignated 330th Aircraft Sustainment Wing on 31 January 2005

Activated on 4 March 2005

Inactivated on 30 July 2010

Assignments

Tenth Air Force, 27 June 1949 (Attached to 22d Bombardment Wing, 27 June 1949 - 30 April 1951)
Fifteenth Air Force, 1 May 1951 - 26 June 1951 (attached to 12th Air Division until 16 June 1951)
Tenth Air Force, 14 June 1952 – 14 July 1952
Air Force Materiel Command, 4 May 2005 - 30 June 2010

Components

330th Bombardment Group (VH) (later 330th Troop Carrier Group, 330th Tactical Airlift Sustainment Group, 330th Aircraft Sustainment Group): 27 June 1949 - 26 June 1951, 14 June 1952 - 14 July 1952, 4 March 2005 - 30 June 2010
330 Command and Control & Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Sustainment Group: 4 March 2005 - 14 April 2006
330 Fighter Sustainment Group: 4 March 2005 - 14 April 2006
330 Special Operations Forces and Combat Search and Rescue Sustainment Group: 4 March 2005 - 14 April 2006
330 Strategic Airlift Sustainment Group: 4 March 2005 - 14 April 2006
560th Aircraft Sustainment Group: 14 April 2006 - 30 June 2010
580th Aircraft Sustainment Group: 14 April 2006 - 30 June 2010
730th Aircraft Sustainment Group: 14 April 2006 - 30 June 2010
830th Aircraft Sustainment Group: 14 April 2006 - 30 June 2010

Stations

March Air Force Base, California, 27 Jun 1949-16 Jun 1951
Greater Pittsburgh Airport, Pennsylvania, 14 Jun-14 Jul 1952
Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, 4 March 2005 - 30 June 2010

Aircraft assigned

Boeing B-29 Superfortress (1949–1951)
Curtiss C-46 Commando, 1951

References

Notes

^ Ravenstein, p. 178

Bibliography

This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency

Ravenstein, Charles A. (1984). Air Force Combat Wings, Lineage & Honors Histories 1947-1977. Washington, DC: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-912799-12-9.

External links

[Ravenstein330TCW-1] Ravenstein, p. 178

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