page_title: Twenty-First Air Force
section_title: Lineage
hierarchical_section_title: Twenty-First Air Force / History / Lineage
caption_attribution_description: English: Routemap of the MATS Eastern Transport Air Force, 1964
context_page_description: The 21st Expeditionary Mobility Task Force was one of two EMTFs assigned to the Air Force's Air Mobility Command. It was headquartered at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey. The 21 EMTF was a redesignation of Twenty-First Air Force, effective 1 October 2003.
  The 21st EMTF reported to Headquarters, Eighteenth Air Force at Scott Air Force Base, Illinois. It was inactivated on 19 March 2012.
context_section_description: Established as 23d Army Air Forces (AAF) Ferrying Wing on 12 June 1942
  Activated on 18 June 1942
  Redesignated North Atlantic Wing on 5 July 1942
  Redesignated North Atlantic Division on 27 June 1944
  Redesignated Atlantic Division on 20 September 1945
  Redesignated Atlantic Division on 1 June 1948
  Redesignated Eastern Transport Air Force on 1 July 1958
  Redesignated Twenty-First Air Force on 3 January 1966
  Redesignated 21st Expeditionary Mobility Task Force on 1 October 2003
  Inactivated on 19 March 2012
  Redesignated Twenty-First Air Force on 30 March 2012
caption: Routes of the Eastern Transport Air Force, 1964
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