 When the US-based C-130 force was realigned in 1997 from ACC back to AMC, the 314th Airlift Wing at Little Rock Air Force Base was split into two pieces.The wing and training units went to Air Education and Training Command.AMC reactivated the 463d as the 463d Airlift Group on 1 April 1997 to control the two operational C-130 squadrons.