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Tyndall Field first opened its doors on December 7, 1941, as a gunnery range. [4] The airfield was named in honor of 1st Lt Frank Benjamin Tyndall. [5] With the establishment of the United States Air Force in 1947, the facility was renamed "Tyndall Air Force Base" on 13 January 1948.
The F-16 Enhanced Strategic (ES) was an extended-range variant of the F-16C/D fitted with conformal fuel tanks that granted it a 40% greater range over the standard Block 50. The F-16ES also featured an internal FLIR system, which offered the capabilities of the LANTIRN navigation and targeting system without the drag associated with external pods.
In 2014, the squadron moved again, along with the rest of Holloman's F-22 fleet, to Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida. As they were at Holloman, the 301st remains part of the 44th Fighter Group, but is now integrated with the 325th Fighter Wing, the tenant Regular Air Force host wing at Tyndall flying the F-22 Raptor.
TYNDALL AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. (WMBB) – One of Tyndall Air Force Base’s major missions has a new commander. ... Ahmann started his Air Force career as an F-16 pilot. He says this new role is a ...
By the end of 2013, all issues were resolved, and the Congress permitted the divestiture of F-22 operations from the 49 FW pending transition to F-16 Fighting Falcon operations. The first five F-22 Raptors left Holloman AFB for Tyndall AFB on 6 January 2014 with the final four-ship tactical sortie being flown on 20 February.
The General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon is an American single-engine supersonic multirole fighter aircraft originally developed by General Dynamics for the United States Air Force (USAF). Designed as an air superiority day fighter, it evolved into a successful all-weather multirole aircraft with over 4,600 built since 1976. [4]
F-101B: Inactivated on 30 September 1968 446th Fighter Squadron: Santa Maria Army Air Field: P-38: Disbanded on 31 March 1944 447th Fighter Squadron: Thomasville Army Air Field: P-39: Disbanded on 1 May 1944 448th Fighter-Day Squadron: Seymour Johnson AFB: F-100: Inactivated on 8 December 1957 449th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron
Brigadier General Charles A. Horner, the USAF Air Defense Weapons Center commander, flew in the 325th Tactical Training Wing's first F-15 Eagle on 7 December 1983. [4] The center was inactivated on 12 September 1991. First Air Force held a change of command and was officially relocated from Langley AFB, Virginia, to Tyndall AFB, Florida. [4]