21st Airship Group

21st Airship Group
A 1922 photo of the C-2 blimp at Brooks Field, Texas
Active16 October 1917 – December 1918
13 September 1921 – 1 June 1939
Disbanded27 May 1939
Country United States
BranchAir Corps
TypeGroup
Motto(s)Sic Itur ad Astra (Thus even to the Stars)
EngagementsWorld War I
Insignia
21st Airship Group distinctive unit insigne
(emblem approved 25 June 1924)
21st Airship Group - Emblem.png

The 21st Airship Group was a unit of the United States Army Air Corps. It was last assigned to the 3d Wing at Scott Field, Illinois. It was originally activated under a different name in 1921, and disbanded on 27 May 1939.

A predecessor of the group served on the Western Front in France during World War I. For most of the period between the two World Wars, the group was the only active lighter-than-air headquarters in the United States Army Air Service and, later, the United States Army Air Corps.


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