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105th Airlift Wing
The first C-17 Globemaster III assigned to the 105th Airlift Wing lands at Stewart AGB on 11 July 2011.
Active	1 May 1956-Present
Country	United States
Branch	Air National Guard
Type	Wing
Role	Strategic Airlift
Part of	New York Air National Guard
Garrison/HQ	Stewart Air National Guard Base, Newburgh, New York
Tail Code	"Stewart" Blue tail stripe
Insignia
105th Airlift Wing emblem

The 105th Airlift Wing (105 AW) is a unit of the New York Air National Guard, stationed at Stewart Air National Guard Base, Newburgh, New York. If activated to federal service, the Wing is gained by the United States Air Force Air Mobility Command.

The 105th Airlift Wing supports our nation’s objectives by providing the Department of Defense with the highly skilled people and operationally ready equipment necessary to meet our Inter-theater airlift and expeditionary combat support commitments.

Multiple groups, squadrons and flights carry out the unit's mission by providing administrative and logistical support, including airlift operations, combat control, pararescue, maintenance, supply, transportation, contracting, communications, civil engineering, personnel, base services, security forces and medical functions.

The 105th Airlift Wing consists of the following major units:

• 105th Operations Group

137th Airlift Squadron

• 105th Maintenance Group
• 105th Mission Support Group
• 105th Medical Group
• 213th Engineering Installation Squadron

• Established as 105th Fighter Group (Air Defense) and allotted to New York ANG in 1956

Received federal recognition and activated on 1 May 1956

Re-designated: 105th Tactical Fighter Group, 10 November 1958

Inactivated on 1 February 1961

• Re-designated: 105th Air Transport Group, 1 December 1963

Received federal recognition and activated on 1 December 1963

Re-designated: 105th Military Airlift Group, 8 January 1966

Re-designated: 105th Tactical Air Support Group, 1 May 1969

Status changed from Group to Wing, 14 June 1975

Re-designated: 105th Tactical Air Support Wing, 14 June 1975

Status changed from Wing to Group, 1 August 1978

Re-designated: 105th Tactical Air Support Group, 1 August 1978

Re-designated: 105th Military Airlift Group, 1 May 1984

Re-designated: 105th Airlift Group, 18 March 1992

Status changed from Group to Wing, 1 October 1995

Re-designated: 105th Airlift Group, 1 October 1995

• 107th Air Defense Wing, 1 May 1956
• 107th Tactical Fighter Wing, 10 November 1958-1 February 1961
• New York Air National Guard, 1 December 1963

Gained by: Eastern Transport Air Force, Military Air Transport Service

Gained by: Twenty-First Air Force, Military Airlift Command, 8 January 1966

Gained by: Tactical Air Command, 1 May 1969

Gained by: Twenty-First Air Force, Military Airlift Command, 1 May 1984

Gained by: Air Mobility Command, 1 June 1992-Present

• 105th Tactical Air Support (later Operations) Group, 14 June 1975-1 August 1978; 1 October 1995-Present

• 137th Fighter (later Tactical Fighter, Air Transport, Military Airlift, Tactical Air Support, Military Airlift, Airlift) Squadron, 1 May 1956-Present

• Westchester County Airport, White Plains, New York, 1 May 1956
• Stewart International Airport, Newburgh, New York, 1 May 1983

Designated: Stewart Air National Guard Base, 1991-Present

 This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency

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