US Air Force squadron, part of Air Force Materiel Command
461st Flight Test Squadron
An F-35 Lightning II, marked AA-1, lands at Edwards Air Force Base
Active
12 December 1942 – Present
Country
United States
Branch
United States Air Force
Type
Squadron
Role
Flight Testing
Part of
Air Force Materiel Command
Garrison/HQ
Edwards Air Force Base, California
Motto(s)
Caveant Caelum Nostrum Latin Beware, Our Sky
Engagements
Operation Market Garden
Decorations
Distinguished Unit Citation Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
Insignia
461st Flight Test Squadron emblem (approved 27 August 1957)[1]
unofficial 361st Fighter Squadron emblem prior to 1945[2][3]
World War II Squadron Fuselage Code
QI
412th Wing Tail Code
ED
Aircraft flown
Fighter
F-35 Lightning II
Military unit
The 461st Flight Test Squadron is a United States Air Force squadron, assigned to the 412th Operations Group of Air Force Materiel Command, and is stationed at Edwards Air Force Base, California. The Squadron performs flight testing on the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II.
The squadron's origins can be traced to the 361st Fighter Squadron, which flew combat in the European Theater of Operations, where it won a Distinguished Unit Citation before inactivating in 1945.
In 1985, the 361st Squadron was consolidated with the 461st Tactical Fighter Training Squadron. The 461st had been activated in 1956 as the 461st Fighter-Day Squadron and served as a fighter unit in Europe until 1959. It served as a training unit in Arizona starting in 1977. The consolidated unit was inactivated in 1994, but was activated again in its current role in 2006.
^Robertson, Patsy (19 December 2007). "Factsheet 461 Flight Test Squadron (AFMC)". Air Force Historical Research Agency. Archived from the original on 22 April 2016. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
^Watkins, pp. 68–69
^See Maurer, Combat Squadrons, p. 449. (no approved emblem)
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