gmailander Posted November 7, 2012 Share Posted November 7, 2012 There are several different tail flash colors of 19th Air Wing C-130's from the "Rock". What colors represent a particular squadron? During the last 2 months, "Rock" C-130's have visited Reno with red, green, white and I believe yellow tail flashes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RavenFE Posted November 8, 2012 Share Posted November 8, 2012 If memory serves me right: red-50th, green-61st, white-41st(J)?, yellow-53rd. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gmailander Posted November 8, 2012 Author Share Posted November 8, 2012 Many thanks. I have a number of photos of "Rock" C-130's. Now I can put a squadron name to the plane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobdaley Posted November 8, 2012 Share Posted November 8, 2012 Do the 53rd and 61st still share aircraft or are the aircraft assigned by squadron? Bob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEFEGeorge Posted November 8, 2012 Share Posted November 8, 2012 If memory serves me right: red-50th, green-61st, white-41st(J)?, yellow-53rd. Red for the 50th (Red Devils) and green (Green Hornets) for the 61st makes sense. Not sure about the 41st and 53rd though. Guess the 16th and 62nd are history huh? The squadrons I was assigned to no longer exist or have different designations now - 32nd TAS, 6594th TG, 16th TATS, and 17th TAS. Such a shame. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMPTestFE Posted November 8, 2012 Share Posted November 8, 2012 The 16th is a C-17 squadron, the 62nd is in the 314th AW. The 53rd tail flash is black. We lost the 16th back in the early 90's, and was given an old C-141 squadron (53rd) as it's replacement. The way I heard, the C-17s already had the 15th & 17th squadrons, and wanted (and got) the 16th to make them sequential. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SEFEGeorge Posted November 9, 2012 Share Posted November 9, 2012 The 16th is a C-17 squadron, the 62nd is in the 314th AW. The 53rd tail flash is black. We lost the 16th back in the early 90's, and was given an old C-141 squadron (53rd) as it's replacement. The way I heard, the C-17s already had the 15th & 17th squadrons, and wanted (and got) the 16th to make them sequential. Yeah they got the 17th and the 17th became the 517th. So much for squadron history. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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