page_title: 111th Reconnaissance Squadron
section_title: Texas Air National Guard
hierarchical_section_title: 111th Reconnaissance Squadron / History / Texas Air National Guard
caption_attribution_description: English: 111th Fighter Squadron - North American F-51D-25-NA Mustang 44-73656 Later sold and on civil registry as N5073K with Duncan Aeromotive, Galveston, TX. A mystery may be emerging here! According to an article in a 1990 edition of 'FlyPast' magazine, this aircraft became N5073K in February 1958 and was sold (probably illegally) to the EL Salvador AF in 1968 as FAS406. The article goes on to say that it returned to USA in 1974 under the false identity of 44-12473, was registered N32FF and later N2151D, being by 1990 painted as 44-14273 'Moonbeam McSwine'. However, both N5073K and N2151D appear to be current in the Landings database, N5073K being quoted as 44-73656 and N2151D being quoted as 'P-51D 44-12473', although 44-12473 is/was a P-51K! The current FAA database lists the airfrme as being 44-12473. Aircraft was repainted as 44-14273, but the numbers got transposed on the registration document as 44-12473.
context_page_description: The 111th Attack Squadron is a unit of the Texas Air National Guard 147th Reconnaissance Wing located at Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base, Houston, Texas. The 111th is equipped with the General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper unmanned aerial vehicle.
  The squadron is a descendant organization of the World War I 111th Aero Squadron, established on 14 August 1917. It was reformed on 29 June 1923, as the 111th Observation Squadron, and is one of the 29 original National Guard Observation Squadrons of the United States Army National Guard formed before World War II.
  The 111th Reconnaissance Squadron is the oldest unit of the Texas Air National Guard, with over 95 years of service to the State of Texas and the United States.
context_section_description: The wartime 111th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron was re-designated as the 111th Fighter Squadron, and was allotted to the Texas Air National Guard, on 24 May 1946. It was organized at the Houston Municipal Airport and was extended federal recognition on 27 January 1947 by the National Guard Bureau. The 111th Fighter Squadron was bestowed the lineage, history, honors, and colors of the 111th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron and all predecessor units. The squadron was assigned to the Texas Air National Guard 136th Fighter Group and was equipped with F-51D Mustangs.
  The mission of the squadron was the air defense of Texas. During the postwar years, the 111th primarily trained over the southern and eastern parts of the state; the 181st Fighter Squadron, based at Love Field, Dallas, and covered the south east, and the 182d Fighter Squadron, based at Brooks AFB, near San Antonio covered the Hill Country and west Texas.
caption: 111th Fighter Squadron – North American F-51D-25-NA Mustang 44-73656
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