550th Guided Missiles Wing The 550th Guided Missiles Wing is an inactive United States Air Force unit . It was last assigned to the Air Proving Ground , stationed at Patrick AFB , Florida . It was inactivated on 30 December 1950 . History . Established as an expansion of the 1st Experimental Guided Missiles Group ( 1st EGMG ) , the 550th Guided Missiles Wing was a short - lived unit of the Air Proving Ground command at Eglin AFB , Florida . It ' s mission was the supervision and evaluation of guided missile service tests as opposed to pure experimentation of its predecessor unit . As part of the 550th GMW , the 1st Experimental Guided Missiles Squadron was inactivated ; its personnel and equipment reorganized as follows : The wing also consisted of a Headquarters squadron and a maintenance and supply squadron . Like its predecessor , the 550th Guided Missiles Wing had detachments in tenant status at Holloman Air Force Base and the Navy ' s Guided Missile Test Center at Point Mugu . While the Holloman detachment continued to assist the Glenn L . Martin Company with developmental testing of the MX - 771 Matador ( i . e . , it witnessed test firings and reported on the results ) , the Point Mugu detachment completed its Navy Convair Lark missile training and moved to the Joint Long Range Proving Ground in early January 1950 On 1 July 1950 , the 3d Guided Missiles Squadron ( GMS ) was activated at the Long Range Proving Ground ( later Patrick ) Air Force Base , on the Atlantic Coast of Florida . Its mission was to support the Aerodynamic missiles being developed by the Long Range Proving Ground Division . The squadron launched three US Navy LARK surface - to - air missiles at Cape Canaveral in October and November 1950 . The 550th Guided Missiles Wing also continued its predecessor ' s support of the Atomic Energy Commission atomic bomb testing program . However during the Wing ' s brief existence , no tests were scheduled . Inactivation . By January 1950 , the Air Proving Ground decided the QB / DB - 17 drone mission needed to be separated from the Missile Testing mission . It recommended the establishment of a separate and permanent drone squadron . Drone support personnel from the 2d Guided Missiles Squadron were subsequently transferred to a new unit , the 3201st Air Base Support Squadron , which was placed under the 3201st Air Base Group at Eglin . While the 3201st Air Base Support Squadron remained under the 550th for administrative purposes , its operations were essentially divorced from the 550th ' s missile activities when the 3200th moved to Auxiliary Field # 3 . In June 1951 , the 3201st ABSS was upgraded to a group level , the 3200th Drone Group . By late 1950 , Air Proving Ground Command decided to reorganize the missile testing program . The 550th Guided Missiles Wing was inactivated effective 29 December 1950 . In its place , the Wing was to be moved to Patrick AFB , which it did in early December . At Patrick , the resources of the 550th GMW were assumed by the new 4800th Guided Missile Wing , which consolidated all Air Proving Ground activities at the base . The 1st GMS terminated its gliding bomb mission and was inactivated . The 2nd Guided Missiles Squadron was inactivated at Holloman AFB , its designation moved to Patrick and on 10 April 1951 became the 4802d Guided Missiles Squadron . The personnel and equipment at Holloman Air Force Base became a detachment of the 3201st Air Base Support Squadron . It later was revived as the 3225th Drone Squadron at Holloman on 1 January 1953 The 3d GMS already at Patrick AFB was inactivated and became the 4803d Guided Missiles Squadron . Stations . Detachments :