It was last assigned to the Western Flying Training Command and was disbanded on 1 November 1945 at the Santa Ana Army Air Base, California.

The squadron was a World War II Command and Control unit.

Its mission was to provide classification and preflight testing of aviation cadets.

There is no lineage between the current United States Air Force 81st Training Wing, established on 15 April 1948 at Wheeler Field, Hawaii, and this organization.

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