However, the Army Air Forces (AAF) was finding that standard military units, based on relatively inflexible tables of organization, were proving less well adapted to the training mission.

[5] In the summer of 1955 ADC implemented Project Arrow, which was designed to bring back on the active list the fighter units which had compiled memorable records in the two world wars.

In November 1956, the squadron upgraded to supersonic Convair F-102 Delta Daggers equipped with data link to communicate directly with Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE) computers located in combat control centers and armed with the AIM-4 Falcon Missile.

[1][9] Its mission became air defense of the Newfoundland Straits and the Great Circle polar route from the Soviet Union over Greenland to Canada and the United States.

In 1960 it was assigned directly to the Goose Air Defense Sector, but was inactivated later that year[1] due to the emerging threat of missiles rather than manned aircraft.