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The 4205th Air Base Group was activated on 12 December to prepare the newly re-designated Mountain Home Air Force Base for operational use. Three wings of the Air Resupply and Communications Service used the base in the early 1950s. In 1953, the base was transferred to Strategic Air Command (SAC), which assigned its 9th Bombardment Wing to ...
391st Fighter Squadron (F-15E) 428th Fighter Squadron mixed USAF/RSAF unit for training RSAF personnel on the new F-15SG (Peace Carvin V) 379th Air Expeditionary Wing (F-15E) 455th Air Expeditionary Wing – Bagram AB, Afghanistan (F-15E) Air Education and Training Command. 56th Fighter Wing – Kingsley Field Air National Guard Base, Oregon
These codes are squadron specific and identify neither the squadron's wing nor base air station. Training Command aircraft use a single-letter tail code which identifies the aircraft's training wing. TW-1 NAS Meridian, MS: A; TW-2 NAS Kingsville, TX: B; TW-4 NAS Corpus Christi, TX: G; TW-5 NAS Whiting Field, FL: E; TW-6 NAS Pensacola, FL: F
This is a list of United States Air Force test squadrons.It covers units considered to be part of the Air Force and serves as a break out of the comprehensive List of United States Air Force squadrons.
F-15E [561] MO: 391st Fighter Squadron: Bold Tigers [562] Air Combat Command: Fifteenth Air Force: 366 FW: 1 June 1943 Mountain Home AFB, Idaho: F-15E [563] MO: 421st Fighter Squadron: Black Widows [564] Air Combat Command: Fifteenth Air Force: 388 FW: 1 May 1943 [565] Hill AFB, Utah: F-35A [566] HL: 425th Fighter Squadron: Black Widows [567 ...
The McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle was introduced by the USAF to replace its fleet of McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom IIs.Unlike the F-4, the F-15 was designed for air superiority with little consideration for a ground-attack role; the F-15 Special Project Office opposed the idea of F-15s performing interdiction, giving rise to the phrase "Not a pound for air to ground."
McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagle 91-310, 'LN', 494 FS / 48 FW, at RAF Lakenheath, July 2009. Lakenheath received its first McDonnell Douglas F-15E Strike Eagles in 1992. On 16 December 1992, the last F-111 departed the base. Along with its departure, the 493d FS was inactivated, but then reactivated as an F-15 Eagle squadron. [21]
The 493rd's arrival meant that the 48th became the largest F-15E/F-15C composite unit in the U.S. Air Force. In August 1998 an F-15D (Serial 86–182) of the 493d Fighter Squadron paid a visit to Chaumont-Semoutiers Air Base (now called Quartier General d'Aboville), France for an open house static display.