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The 94th Fighter Squadron is a unit of the United States Air Force 1st Operations Group located at Joint Base Langley–Eustis, Virginia. The 94th is equipped with the F-22 Raptor . [ 1 ]
During Operation Bolero, the ferrying of combat aircraft from the U.S. to England by air, a flight of two B-17E-BO Flying Fortresses, 41-9101, c/n 2573, "Big Stoop", and 41-9105, c/n 2577, "Do-Do", of the 97th Bomb Group and six P-38F Lightnings of the 94th Fighter Squadron, 1st Fighter Group, on the 845-mile (1,360 km) leg between Bluie West 8 ...
While deployed to Alpena, Michigan, for a gunnery exercise, Lt. James R. Taylor of the 71st Pursuit Squadron, flying Lockheed YP-38 Lightning, 39-695, of the 27th Pursuit Squadron, 1st Pursuit Group, [151] suffers a port engine fire on takeoff from Selfridge Field [152] which causes his fighter to strike pine trees. The pilot dies of his ...
As a result, the 1st Fighter Wing was inactivated on 31 December, and a 33-year chapter in the history of Selfridge came to an end. The 94th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron prepared to move to Wurtsmith Air Force Base near Oscoda, Michigan, and elements of the 1st Combat Support Group were re-designated the 4708th Air Base Group on 1 January 1970 ...
The 553rd Fighter Squadron, which trained replacement pilots for the 332nd Fighter Group, was the last group to train at Selfridge Airfield before moving to Walterboro Army Airfield in South ...
September 3 – (Dillon, Montana) – Captain Joel Rude, 32 years old, of Great Falls, Montana, was a flight training instructor for the Montana Air National Guard was killed when his U.S. Air Force F-106 Delta Dart from the 186th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron was making a low flight over a Labor Day parade on Dillon's main street, crashed into ...
McDonnell-Douglas F-15C Eagle 85-0116 of the 60th Fighter Squadron, 33rd Fighter Wing, based at Eglin AFB, Florida, crashed at 0900 hrs. in the Gulf of Mexico, 90 miles S of Eglin. [83] The pilot, assigned to the 60th Fighter Squadron, ejected safely and was rescued. He and another F-15 had departed Eglin at 0835 hrs. for a training mission ...
P-80B of 71st Fighter Squadron in foreground 94th Fighter Squadron North American F-86A-5-NA Sabre 48-130 1st Fighter Group, March AFB California 1949. One of the first blocks of production F-86s assigned to an operational squadron 94th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron North American F-86D-60-NA Sabre 53-892 Selfridge AFB, Michigan, 1955