List of United States Army aircraft battalions

This is a list of United States Army aircraft battalions. The aviation battalions in the US Army are generally attached to divisions, corps and armies and mostly consist of helicopters, both attack and reconnaissance. The helicopter battalions are often grouped into aviation brigades. There are also a few fixed-wing aircraft battalions, consisting of training aircraft, Beechcraft RC-12 Guardrail operational aircraft, and Beechcraft C-12 Huron / Cessna UC-35 transports for VIP personnel.

Cavalry Regiments

Cavalry unitsSquadronCABDivisionLocationNotes
6th Cavalry1st Heavy Attack Reconnaissance SquadronCombat Aviation Brigade1st Infantry DivisionMarshall Army Airfield, Fort Riley, Kansas"The Fighting Sixth"
2nd Squadron25th Combat Aviation Brigade25th Infantry DivisionWheeler Army Airfield, Hawaii"Lightning Horse"
4th Heavy Attack Reconnaissance Squadron16th Combat Aviation BrigadeN/A
6th SquadronCombat Aviation Brigade10th Mountain DivisionWheeler-Sack Army Airfield, Fort Drum, New York"Six Shooters"
17th Cavalry1st Heavy Attack Reconnaissance SquadronCombat Aviation Brigade82nd Airborne DivisionSimmons Army Airfield, Fort Bragg, North Carolina
2nd SquadronCombat Aviation Brigade101st Airborne Division (Air Assault)Campbell Army Airfield, Fort Campbell, Kentucky"Out Front"
3rd Squadron3rd Combat Aviation Brigade3rd Infantry DivisionHunter Army Airfield, Fort Stewart, Georgia
6th Squadron16th Combat Aviation BrigadeN/ALadd Army Airfield, Fort Wainwright, Alaska
7th Squadron1st Air Cavalry Brigade1st Cavalry DivisionHood Army Airfield, Fort Hood, Texas"PaleHorse"

Aviation Regiments

  • CAB = Combat Aviation Brigade

001-100

RegimentUnitsBaseNotes
1st Aviation
1st Battalion (Attack Reconnaissance)
2nd Battalion (General Support)
3rd Battalion (Assault Helicopter)
Fort Riley, Kansas
2nd Aviation
1st Battalion (Attack Reconnaissance)
2nd Battalion (Assault Helicopter)
3rd Battalion (General Support)
4th Battalion (Attack Reconnaissance)
Fort Carson, Colorado
K-16 Air Base, South Korea
Camp Humphreys, South Korea
Camp Humphreys, South Korea
CAB, 2nd Infantry Division
3rd Aviation
1st Battalion (Attack Reconnaissance)[1]
2nd Battalion (General Support)
4th Battalion (Assault Helicopter)
Hunter Army Airfield Savannah, GeorgiaCAB, 3rd Infantry Division
4th Aviation
1st Battalion (Attack Reconnaissance)
2nd Battalion (General Support)
3rd Battalion (Assault Helicopter)
4th Battalion
Fort Carson, ColoradoCAB, 4th Infantry Division
5th Aviation
1st BattalionJoint Readiness Training Center, Fort Polk, LouisianaUH-72A[2]
10th Aviation
1st Battalion (Attack Reconnaissance)
2nd Battalion (Assault Helicopter)
3rd Battalion (General Support)
Fort Drum, New YorkCAB, 10th Mountain Division
11th Aviation (Training)
1st Battalion, Air Traffic Services CommandFort Rucker, Alabama
13th Aviation (Training)
1st Battalion, 1st Aviation BrigadeFort Rucker, Alabama
14th Aviation (Training)
1st Battalion, 110th Aviation BrigadeFort Rucker, Alabama
25th Aviation
1st Battalion (Attack Reconnaissance)
2nd Battalion (Assault Helicopter)
3rd Battalion (General Support)
Wheeler Field, HawaiiCAB, 25th Infantry Division
52nd Aviation
1st Battalion (General Support)
6th Battalion
82nd Aviation
1st Battalion (Attack Reconnaissance)
2nd Battalion (Assault Helicopter)
3rd Battalion (General Support)[3]
Fort Bragg, North CarolinaCAB, 82nd Airborne Division

100-200

RegimentUnitsBaseNotes
101st Aviation
1st Battalion
2nd Battalion
3rd Battalion
4th Battalion
5th Battalion
6th Battalion
7th Battalion
8th Battalion
Fort Campbell, Ky.
104th Aviation
1st Battalion
2nd Battalion (General Support)
PA ARNG (Attack)
PA, WV ARNG (GSAB)
106th Aviation
1st BattalionPeoria, ILIL ARNG, MO ARNG
107th Aviation
1st Battalion (Airfield Operations)
108th Aviation
1st Battalion (Assault Helicopter)
111th Aviation
1st Battalion (General Support)
2nd Battalion (Airfield Operations)
FL ARNG[4]
114th Aviation
1st Battalion
123rd Aviation
1st Battalion, West Coast, c.1987[5]
4th Battalion
1st Battalion was seemingly attached to 7th Infantry Division at the time of the United States invasion of Panama
124th Aviation
1st BattalionLucius D. Clay KaserneC-12U[6]
UC-35A1[7]
126th Aviation
1st Battalion (General Support)
3rd Battalion (General Support)
130th Aviation
1st Battalion (Attack Reconnaissance)
2nd Battalion (Airfield Operations)
131st Aviation
1st Battalion (Assault Helicopter)
135th Aviation
1st Battalion (Assault Helicopter)
2nd Battalion (General Support)
Buckley Air Force BaseCO ARNG[8]
137th Aviation
1st Battalion (General Support)
140th Aviation
1st Battalion
3rd Battalion (Security & Support)
142nd Aviation
1st Battalion
3rd Battalion (Assault Helicopter)[9]
145th Aviation
1st Battalion
147th Aviation
1st Battalion[10]
2nd Battalion (Assault Helicopter)
149th Aviation
1st Battalion
2nd Battalion (General Support)[11]
150th Aviation
1st Battalion (Assault Helicopter)
151st Aviation
1st Battalion (Attack Reconnaissance)
2nd Battalion (Security & Support)
155th Aviation
5th Battalion
158th Aviation
1st Battalion (Assault Helicopter)
3rd Battalion
7th Battalion (General Support)
159th Aviation
1st Battalion
2nd Battalion
5th Battalion (General Support)
160th Special Operations Aviation
1st Battalion
2nd Battalion
3rd Battalion
4th Battalion
168th Aviation
1st Battalion (General Support)[12]Washington ARNG
169th Aviation
1st Battalion (General Support)
171st Aviation
1st Battalion (General Support)
183rd Aviation
1st Battalion (Attack Reconnaissance)
185th Aviation
1st Battalion (Assault Helicopter)
189th Aviation
1st Battalion (General Support)

200-300

RegimentUnitsBaseNotes
210th Aviation
212th Aviation
211th Aviation
1st Battalion (Attack Reconnaissance)
2nd Battalion (General Support)[13]
214th Aviation
1st Battalion (General Support)[14]
3d Battalion

Company B = King Air
222nd Aviation
1st Battalion[15]
223rd Aviation
224th Aviation
1st Battalion (Security & Support)[16]
2nd Battalion (Assault Helicopter)
227th Aviation
1st Battalion (Attack Reconnaissance)[17]
2nd Battalion (General Support)
3rd Battalion
228th Aviation
1st Battalion[18]
2nd Battalion
229th Aviation
1st Battalion (Attack Reconnaissance)
8th Battalion[19]
238th Aviation
2nd Battalion (General Support)[20]
3rd Battalion (General Support)
245th Aviation
1st Battalion (Airfield Operations)
2nd Battalion
285th Aviation
1st Battalion (Attack Reconnaissance)
2nd Battalion (Assault Helicopter)[21]

300-

RegimentUnitsBaseNotes
376th Aviation
1st Battalion (Security & Support)
501st Aviation
1st Battalion (Attack Reconnaissance)
2nd Battalion (General Support)[22]
4th Battalion[23]
641st Aviation
2nd Battalion

Aviation Battalions

RegimentUnitsBaseYears activeNotes
1st Aviation Battalion
A Company: Champagne Flight (UH-1D)[24]
9th Aviation Battalion
A Company (UH-1D/H) (1968)
B Company (UH-1D/H, AH-1G & OH-6A) (1968)
[25]
10th Aviation Battalion
48th Aviation Company (1968)
92nd Aviation Company (1968)
192nd Aviation Company (1968)
155th Aviation Company (1968)
243rd Aviation Company (1968)
281st Aviation Company (1968)
(Combat Aviation Battalion) (1968)[26]
11th Aviation Battalion
128th Aviation Company (1968)
162nd Aviation Company (1968)
173rd Aviation Company (1968)
213th Aviation Company (1968)
163rd Aviation Company (1971)[27]
(Combat Aviation Battalion) (1968)[26]
13th Aviation Battalion
114th Aviation Company (1964)(1968)
121st Aviation Company (1964)(1968)
Company A, 502nd Aviation Battalion (1964)
175th Aviation Company (1968)
336th Aviation Company (1968)
271st Aviation Company (1968)
Binh Thuy Air Base1964-[28] (Combat Aviation Battalion) (1968)[26]
14th Aviation Battalion
71st Aviation Company (1968)
174th Aviation Company (1968)
176th Aviation Company (1968)
178th Aviation Company (1968)
132nd Aviation Company (1968)
(Combat Aviation Battalion) (1968)[26]
25th Aviation Battalion
A Company (UH-1D)[29]
52nd Aviation Battalion
117th Aviation Company (1964)
119th Aviation Company (1964)
57th Aviation Company (1968)
119th Aviation Company (1968)
170th Aviation Company (1968)
179th Aviation Company (1968)
189th Aviation Company (1968)
355th Aviation Company (1968)
361st Aviation Company (1968)
Pleiku Air Base1964-[28] (Combat Aviation Battalion) (1968)[26]
101st Aviation Battalion
A Company (UH-1D)[30]
145th Aviation Battalion
68th Aviation Company (1964)(1968)
118th Aviation Company (1964)(1968)
120th Aviation Company (1964)
Company A, 501st Aviation Battalion (1964)
190th Aviation Company (1968)
334th Aviation Company (1968)
135th Aviation Company (1968)
Tan Son Nhut Air Base1964-[28] (Combat Aviation Battalion) (1968)[26]
210th Aviation Battalion
25th Aviation Company (1968)
54th Aviation Company (1968)
73rd Aviation Company (1968)
74th Aviation Company (1968)
120th Aviation Company (1968)
184th Aviation Company (1968)
(Combat Aviation Battalion) (1968)[26]
212th Aviation Battalion
21st Aviation Company (1968)
131st Aviation Company (1968)
220th Aviation Company (1968)
245th Aviation Company (1968)
282nd Aviation Company (1968)
(Combat Aviation Battalion) (1968)[26]
214th Aviation Battalion
191st Aviation Company (1968)
240th Aviation Company (1968)
117th Aviation Company (1968)
195th Aviation Company (1968)
(Combat Aviation Battalion) (1968)[26]
222nd Aviation Battalion
147th Aviation Company (1968)
273rd Aviation Company (1968)
205th Aviation Company (1968)
(Combat Support Aviation Battalion) (1968)[26]
223rd Aviation Battalion
18th Aviation Company (1968)
183rd Aviation Company (1968)
185th Aviation Company (1968)
203rd Aviation Company (1968)
219th Aviation Company (1968)
225th Aviation Company (1968)
(Combat Support Aviation Battalion) (1968)[26]
227th Aviation Battalion
A Company (UH-1D/H) (1964)
B Company (UH-1D/H) (1964)
C Company (UH-1D/H) (1964)
D Company (UH-1B/AH-1G) (1964)
(Assault Helicopter) (1964).[31]
228th Aviation Battalion
A Company (CH-47A & OH-13/OH-6A) (1965)
B Company (CH-47A & OH-13/OH-6A) (1965)
C Company (CH-47A & OH-13/OH-6A) (1965)
Camp Radcliff[27]1965-(Assault Support Helicopter) (1965).[31]
229th Aviation Battalion
A Company (UH-1D/H) (1964)
B Company (UH-1D/H) (1964)
C Company (UH-1D/H) (1964)
D Company (UH-1B/AH-1G) (1964)
(Assault Helicopter) (1964).[31]
268th Aviation Battalion
61st Aviation Company (1968)
129th Aviation Company (1968)
134th Aviation Company (1968)
180th Aviation Company (1968)
335th Aviation Company (1968)
196th Aviation Company (1968)
(Combat Aviation Battalion) (1968)[26]
269th Aviation Battalion
116th Aviation Company (1968)
187th Aviation Company (1968)
242nd Aviation Company (1968)
(Combat Aviation Battalion) (1968)[26]
307th Aviation Battalion
199th Aviation Company (1968)
221st Aviation Company (1968)
235th Aviation Company (1968)
244th Aviation Company (1968)
(Combat Aviation Battalion) (1968)[26]
501st Aviation Battalion
A Company (UH-1B)Bien Hoa1965-[32]
502nd Aviation Battalion
[28]

References

Citations

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  2. AirForces Monthly. Stamford, Lincolnshire, England: Key Publishing Ltd. September 2020. p. 13.
  3. "Ride Along". DVIDS. December 15, 2016.
  4. "83rd Troop Command". Florida National Guard. December 18, 2016.
  5. https://apnews.com/5913cc6b62bddf879c5b8cae304474f0
  6. AirForces Monthly. Stamford, Lincolnshire, England: Key Publishing Ltd. October 2016. p. 95.
  7. AirForces Monthly. Stamford, Lincolnshire, England: Key Publishing Ltd. November 2016. p. 94.
  8. "2-135th Ground Support Aviation Battalion (GSAB)". Colorado National Guard. December 18, 2016.
  9. "Maine Aviation Regiment Always Ready". DVIDS. December 15, 2016.
  10. "Northern Strike 15". DVIDS. December 15, 2016.
  11. "Medevac". DVIDS. December 15, 2016.
  12. AirForces Monthly. Stamford, Lincolnshire, England: Key Publishing Ltd. March 2016. p. 56.
  13. "General Lengyel Afghanistan Troop Visit". DVIDS. December 15, 2016.
  14. "Phase Maintenance Inspection". DVIDS. December 15, 2016.
  15. "Toys for Tots brings in holiday cheer". DVIDS. December 15, 2016.
  16. "Soldiers Pose in Front of a UH-72 Lakota Helicopter". DVIDS. December 15, 2016.
  17. "Air Cav Troopers deliver gifts to students". DVIDS. December 15, 2016.
  18. "1-228 AVN conducts expeditionary Forward Arming and Refueling Point exercise". DVIDS. December 15, 2016.
  19. "2/24 Brings Steel Rain". DVIDS. December 15, 2016.
  20. "40th CAB Soldiers in action in Iraq". DVIDS. December 15, 2016.
  21. "Task Force Redhawk hones response and recovery skills during Operation Poseidon". DVIDS. December 15, 2016.
  22. "Network Integration Evaluation 15.2". DVIDS. December 15, 2016.
  23. "Aviation transfer of authority ceremony". DVIDS. December 27, 2016.
  24. Dunstan 1988, p. 66.
  25. Dunstan 1988, p. 39.
  26. Dunstan 1988, p. 38.
  27. Dunstan 1988, p. 75.
  28. Dunstan 1988, p. 33.
  29. Dunstan 1988, p. 55.
  30. Dunstan 1988, p. 59.
  31. Dunstan 1988, p. 36.
  32. Dunstan 1988, p. 88.

Bibliography

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  • Wayne M. Dzmonchyk (compiler), Army Lineage Series - Aviation, Center of Military History Publication 60-12-1, Washington DC., 1986.
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