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The 730th Airlift Squadron at March ARB, California, was retired on 19 March, sixty-two years after it first stood up as a B-17 unit during World War II. The squadron, which was reactivated in 1947, flew at least ten different types of aircraft before converting to the C-141 and becoming the 730th Military Airlift Squadron in 1968. When Norton AFB, California, was closed in 1993, the airlift unit there moved to March to become the 730th Airlift Squadron. March’s four remaining StarLifters are scheduled to retire this spring. The 730th was the first associate unit in the Air Force Reserve, a system in which reservists fly active duty aircraft and augment active duty crews.
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