It was last assigned to the 380th Bombardment Wing at Plattsburgh Air Force Base, New York, where it was inactivated on 1 July 1991.

It trained all FB-111 aircrews until inactivating when its planes were transferred to Tactical Air Command and modified for conventional operations.

[1] For the remainder of its stay in Australia, the squadron and the rest of the 380th Group would be attached to the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF).

In August 1943, it participated in a series of raids on oil refineries in Balikpapan, Borneo in what at the time was the longest bombing mission flown by an Army Air Forces bomber unit.

During April and May 1944, the unit conducted a series of raids on enemy airfields in western New Guinea to support landings in the Hollandia area, for which it was awarded a second DUC.

[1][2] The squadron was activated in the reserves at Chatham Field, Georgia, where its training was supervised by Air Defense Command (ADC).

[4] President Truman’s reduced 1949 defense budget required reductions in the number of units in the Air Force,[5] and the 530th was inactivated[1] and not replaced as reserve flying operations at Chatham ceased.

The squadron was again activated at Plattsburgh Air Force Base, New York in July 1955 as part of the 380th Bombardment Wing and equipped with Boeing B-47 Stratojets.

[6] Reflex placed Stratojets and Boeing KC-97s at bases closer to the Soviet Union for 90 day periods, although individuals rotated back to home bases during unit Reflex deployments [7] The percentage of SAC planes on fifteen minute ground alert, fully fueled and ready for combat to reduce vulnerability to a Soviet missile strike gradually grew over the next three years to reach the goal of 1/3 of SAC’s force on alert by 1960.

[15] The squadron began to send its Stratojets to the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base for retirement.

[6] SAC organized the 4007th Combat Crew Training Squadron at Carswell Air Force Base, Texas on 2 June 1968 and assigned it to the 340th Bombardment Group on 2 July.

[17] At the end of December 1971, the 4007th moved to Plattsburgh Air Force Base,[18] where it was assigned to the 380th Bombardment Wing.