Fighter Wing at St. Louis due to its conversion to the 131st Bomb Wing, flying the B-2 stealth bomber. As a result of the 2010 Total Force Structure Change, the F-15s of the 120th Fighter Wing were transferred to the 144th Fighter Wing of the California Air National Guard and C-130s of the 19th Airlift Wing from Little Rock AFB, Arkansas were transferred to Great Falls. As a result, the 186th Fighter Squadron was rechristened as the 186th Airlift Squadron. Lineage Constituted as the 404th Fighter Squadron on 25 May 1943 Activated on 15 July 1943 Inactivated on 10 November 1945 Redesignated: 186th Fighter Squadron (Single Engine) and allotted to the National Guard on 24 May 1946 Organized on 1 April 1947 Extended federal recognition on 27 June 1947 Federalized and placed on active duty on 1 April 1951 Redesignated 186th Fighter-Bomber Squadron on 1 June 1951 Released from active duty and returned to Montana state control on 1 January 1953 Redesignated 186th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, on 1 January 1953 and activated in the Montana Air National Guard Redesignated 186th Fighter Squadron on 15 March 1992 Redesignated 186th Airlift Squadron on 1 March 2014 Assignments 371st Fighter Group, 15 July 1943 – 10 November 1945 142d Fighter Group, 1 April 1947 140th Fighter Group, 1 November 1950 146th Fighter Group (later 146th Fighter-Bomber Group), 1 April 1951 142d Fighter-Inte3rceptor Group, 1 January 1953 120th Fighter Group (Air Defense) (later 120th Fighter-Interceptor Group, 120th Fighter Group), 1 April 1956 120th Operations Group, 1 October 1995 – Present Stations Richmond Army Air Base, Virginia, 15 July 1943 Camp Springs Army Air Field, Maryland, 30 September 1943 Richmond Army Air Base, Virginia, 18 January – 14 February 1944 RAF Bisterne (AAF-415), England, March 1944 Beuzeville Airfield (A-6), France, June 1944 Perthes Airfield (A-65), France, 18 September 1944 Dole/Tavaux Airfield (Y-7), France, 1 October 1944 Tantonville Airfield (Y-1), France, 20 December 1944 Metz Airfield (Y-34), France, 15 February 1945 Frankfurt/Eschborn Airfield (Y-74), Germany, 7 April 1945 Fürth Airfield (R-28), Germany, 5 May 1945 AAF Station Hoersching, Austria, 16 August 1945 Strasbourg/Entzheim Airport, France, September– October 1945 Camp Shanks, New York, 9–10 November 1945 Moody Air Force Base, Georgia, 1 May 1951 – 1 January 1953 Gore Field (later Great Falls International Airport), Montana, 1 January 1953 – present Aircraft P-47 Thunderbolt, 1943–1945 F-51D Mustang, 1947–1953 F-86A Sabre, 1953–1955 F-94A Starfire, 1955–1956 F-89C Scorpion, 1956–1958 F-89H