USAF Patch Training c 450 FTS Flying Training Squadron

USAF Patch 450 FTS Flying Training Squadron 1970s Mather AFB T 37 Tweet Uniform removed Fully embroidered cut edge 86mm by 72mm three and three eighth inches by two and seven eighth inches.

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Squadron History 

450 Bombardment Squadron Light was reactivated on 9 August 1947 at Reading Army Airfield Pennsylvania equipped with AT 6 Texan AT 11 Kansan assigned to 322 Bombardment Group as a reserve air training command squadron to provide advanced flight training. The Squadron was inactivated on 27 June 1949 due to funding reductions. 

The Squadron was reactivated as 450 Fighter Day Squadron on 24 March 1954 equipped initially with F 86 Sabre fighters assigned to 322 Fighter Day Group Tactical Air Command relocating to Foster AFB Texas on 1 July 1954 before converting to F 100 Super Sabre fighters in 1955. The Squadron deployed to Landstuhl AB West Germany on 20 September to 4 October 1956 and was inactivated on 18 November 1957.

The Squadron was reactivated as 450 Flying Training Squadron on 1 April 1973 at Mather AFB California equipped with T 29 Flying Classroom training providing undergraduate navigator training for USAF USN USMC and allied Air Forces assigned to 323 Flying Training Wing Air Training Command. The Squadron reequipped with T 37 Tweet trainers in 1974 was reassigned to 323 Operations Group on 15 December 1991 and was inactivated on 31 May 1993.

Although inactive the Squadron was redesignated 450 Expeditionary Flying Training Squadron on provisional status assigned to Air Combat Command on 28 October 2008 to activate for Expeditionary deployment if necessary. 

This patch dates from the 1970s.