8th Air Division

8th Air Division
Lockheed EC-121D as flown by the division
Active	1949-1957
Country	United States
Branch	United States Air Force
Role	Command and Control
Part of	Air Defense Command
Insignia
8th Air Division emblem (approved 21 June 1957)

The 8th Air Division (8th AD) is an inactive United States Air Force organization. Its last assignment was with Air Defense Command, being stationed at McClellan Air Force Base, California. It was inactivated on 1 July 1957.

The 8th AD was established in 1949. Its initial assignment was the air defense of North and South Carolina under Fourteenth Air Force. It was inactivated in 1950 with its air defense mission taken over by Eastern Air Defense Force.

In 1954 it was re-activated under Western Air Defense Force with a mission of being the command and control organization for Airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) units of Air Defense Command. Its mission also included the training and equipping of Lockheed EC-121 Warning Star AEW&C units.

Division components flew early warning missions in "flying radar stations" off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts of the United States until its inactivation in July 1957, its mission being taken over directly by the Western Air Defense Force.

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 This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website http://www.afhra.af.mil/.