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After World War II, the U.S. Air Force constructed permanent and semi-permanent facilities on land leased from the City of Duluth for use by the active Air Force and the Air National Guard. Beginning in 1948, the Minnesota Air National Guard built permanent facilities on the east end of the field.
The 148th Fighter Wing is a unit of the Minnesota Air National Guard located at Duluth Air National Guard Base, Minnesota. The 148th is unit equipped with the General Dynamics F-16C Fighting Falcon. If activated to federal service, the Wing is gained by the United States Air Force Air Combat Command.
The Duluth Air Defense Sector (DUADS) is an inactive United States Air Force organization. Its last assignment was with the Air Defense Command 29th Air Division, being stationed at Duluth Airport, Minnesota. It was inactivated on 1 April 1969.
The Minnesota Air National Guard (MN ANG) is the aerial militia of the U.S. state of Minnesota.It is a reserve of the United States Air Force and along with the Minnesota Army National Guard, an element of the Minnesota National Guard of the larger United States National Guard Bureau.
Wurtsmith Air Force Base, Michigan. 48th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, 1 March 1983 - 1 July 1987 [1] Langley Air Force Base, Virginia. 62nd Fighter Interceptor Squadron, 19 November 1969 - 30 April 1971 [1] K. I. Sawyer Air Force Base, Michigan. 87th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, 28 August 1970 - 1 August 1981 [1] K. I. Sawyer Air Force Base ...
The 179th TRS deployed seven RF-4Cs to Erding Air Base in West Germany between 3 and 23 August 1979 as part of Exercise Coronet Bridle. [27] 179th FIS McDonnell Douglas F-4D-26-MC Phantom II 65-0608 at Duluth Air National Guard Base, Minnesota, 1989. (This aircraft is today preserved at Duluth).
The division moved from Richards-Gebaur Air Force Base, Missouri, to Duluth International Airport, Minnesota, on 1 April 1966 as part of an ADC reorganization, the division's area changed to include Minnesota, parts of Wisconsin, and North Dakota, and later expanded to cover most of Iowa. [2]
11th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron F-102 [note 5]. The group was redesignated the 343d Fighter Group (Air Defense) and activated at Duluth International Airport [1] in August 1955, replacing the 515th Air Defense Group [12] and assuming the 515th's personnel and equipment as part of Air Defense Command (ADC)'s Project Arrow, which was designed to bring back on the active list the fighter units ...