1700th Air Transport

The 1700th Air Transport Group was a unit of the United States Air Force, activated in the early 1950s under the Military Air Transport Service (MATS). Stationed primarily at Kelly Air Force Base, Texas, the group was responsible for managing and operating large-scale airlift missions, utilizing aircraft such as the C-54 Skymaster and C-97 Stratofreighter. Its operations supported worldwide logistics, including troop movements, cargo transport, and humanitarian missions during the early Cold War era. The 1700th Air Transport Group was inactivated in 1957 as part of a broader reorganization of Air Force airlift capabilities.