The 860th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron provides combat-ready maintenance personnel and organization support to inspect, service, and repair assigned C-17 aircraft supporting Department of Defense directives. Squadron members generate 24-hour-a-day rapid global combat support, aeromedical evacuation, humanitarian relief, and contingency response airlift missions. The squadron also ensures mission-ready aircraft, personnel and equipment for worldwide deployment supporting Air Mobility Command’s global mission.
The 860th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron is responsible for organizing and equipping 296 maintenance personnel in support of 13 C-17 Globemaster III aircraft. The 860th Beekeepers are tasked to inspect, service, repair, launch and recover all assigned aircraft. Squadron members generate 24-hour-a-day rapid global mobility to include combat support missions such as: aeromedical evacuation, humanitarian relief, and contingency response airlift missions. The squadron also ensures mission-ready aircraft, personnel and equipment for worldwide deployment in support of Air Mobility Command's global mission.
Lineage:
Constituted 602nd Organizational Maintenance Squadron, activated Dec. 27, 1965
Organized on Jan. 8, 1966, re-designated 602nd Aircraft Generation Squadron on Aug. 1, 1990
Inactivated on Dec. 31, 1997
Re-designated as the 860th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron May 9, 2006
Aircraft:
C-141: 1966 - 1997
C-17: 2006 - Present
Assignments:
Military Air Transport Service, Military Airlift Command (later Air Mobility Command), Dec. 27, 1965
60th Military Airlift Wing, Jan. 8, 1966
60th Military Airlift Group, March 6, 1978
60th Military Airlift Wing, Feb. 15, 1979
60th Logistics Group, Nov. 1, 1990
60th Operations Group, Feb. 1, 1993
60th Logistics Group, April 1, 1995 - Dec. 31, 1997
60th Air Mobility Wing, May 9, 2006
60th Maintenance Group, May 9, 2006
Stations:
Travis AFB, Calif., Jan. 8, 1966 - Dec. 31, 1997
Travis AFB, Calif., May 9, 2006 - Present