The 118th Airlift Squadron is a unit of the Connecticut Air National Guard 103d Airlift Wing stationed at Bradley Air National Guard Base, Connecticut. The 118th is equipped with the C-130H.
118th Airlift Squadron – C-130H
639th Aero Squadron Officers and NCOs – 1918
118th Observation Squadron – Curtiss XO-12 Falcon, about 1926
U.S Army Air Forces North American F-6 Mustang aircraft of the 118th Reconnaissance Squadron at Laohwangping, China, in June 1945.
The Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II, also widely known by the nickname Warthog, is a single-seat, twin-turbofan, straight-wing, subsonic attack aircraft developed by Fairchild Republic for the
118th Airlift Squadron
…deploying frequently in the 1970s to bases in West Germany to reinforce United States Air Forces in Europe (USAFE). In 1979, the unit was assigned new A-10 Thunderbolt IIs as part of the "Total Force" concept which equipped ANG units with front-line USAF aircraft. The USAFE commitment continued, deploying the "Warthog…
An A-10 of the 74th Fighter Squadron after taking on fuel over Afghanistan in 2011
By the time of the Vietnam War, the 1940s-vintage propeller-driven Skyraider was the USAF's only dedicated close air support aircraft. It was slow, vulnerable to ground fire, and relatively lightly armed.
The Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne appeared to offer the possibility of handing much of the tactical air-to-ground role to the U.S. Army.
An A-10A of pre-glass cockpit design