page_title: 42nd Flying Training Squadron
hierarchical_section_title: 42nd Flying Training Squadron
caption_attribution_description: T-38s over Little Bear Creek Reservoir, Alabama. English: www.columbus.af.mil
context_page_description: The 42d Flying Training Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit, last assigned to Air Training Command at Columbus AFB, Mississippi, where it was inactivated on December 15, 1991.
  The squadron was first activated at Hamilton Field, California in 1941 as the 42d Pursuit Squadron. It deployed to Alaska where it participated in combat during the Aleutian Campaign. It returned to the United States, where it became a training unit and was disbanded in a general reorganization of the Army Air Forces in 1944.
  From 1947 to 1949 the squadron was active in the Air Force reserve as the 42d Fighter Squadron, but was not fully manned or equipped.
  The squadron was redesignated the 42d Fighter-Interceptor Squadron and activated in 1953 as an air defense unit in the midwestern United States. It flew North American F-86 Sabres until it was inactivated in 1958.
  The squadron conducted undergraduate pilot training as the 42d Flying Training Squadron at Columbus Air Force Base from 1990 to 1992.
context_section_description: The 42d Flying Training Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit, last assigned to Air Training Command at Columbus AFB, Mississippi, where it was inactivated on December 15, 1991.
  The squadron was first activated at Hamilton Field, California in 1941 as the 42d Pursuit Squadron.  It deployed to Alaska where it participated in combat during the Aleutian Campaign.  It returned to the United States, where it became a training unit and was disbanded in a general reorganization of the Army Air Forces in 1944.
  From 1947 to 1949 the squadron was active in the Air Force reserve as the 42d Fighter Squadron, but was not fully manned or equipped.
  The squadron was redesignated the 42d Fighter-Interceptor Squadron and activated in 1953 as an air defense unit in the midwestern United States.  It flew North American F-86 Sabres until it was inactivated in 1958.
  The squadron conducted undergraduate pilot training as the 42d Flying Training Squadron at Columbus Air Force Base from 1990 to 1992.
caption: T-38s from Columbus AFB
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