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On 1 December 1969 was wing redesignated as the 509th Bombardment Wing, Medium and began receiving the FB-111A strategic bomber in December 1970. [6] The FB-111A was the all-weather strategic bombing version of the Tactical Air Command F-111 which was equipped to carry the AGM-69 SRAM that carried a nuclear warhead with an explosive yield of ...
The 509th Operations Group (509 OG) is the flying component of the United States Air Force 509th Bomb Wing (509 BW), assigned to Whiteman Air Force Base, Missouri. It is equipped with all 20 of the USAF's B-2 Spirit stealth bombers, flown by its 393rd Bomb Squadron .
The strike force consisted of a bombing aircraft, with the aircraft commander responsible for all decisions in reaching the target and the bomb commander (weaponeer) responsible for all decisions regarding dropping of the bomb; a blast instrumentation aircraft which would fly the wing of the strike aircraft and drop instruments by parachute ...
400th Bombardment Group, 1 March 1943 – 10 April 1944; 509th Bombardment Group, 12 July 1948; 509th Bombardment Wing, 16 June 1952; 817th Air Division, 5 January 1958; 509th Bombardment Wing, 8 July 1958 – 25 June 1965; Strategic Air Command 8 August 1966 (not organized) 509th Bombardment Wing, 2 October 1966; 416th Bombardment Wing, 1 July ...
Pease Air National Guard Base is a New Hampshire Air National Guard base located at Portsmouth International Airport at Pease in New Hampshire.It occupies a portion of what was once Pease Air Force Base, a former Strategic Air Command facility with a base-related population of 10,000 and which was home to the 509th Bomb Wing (509 BW) flying the General Dynamics FB-111A.
The Air Force now has the B-61-12 tactical nuclear bomb ready for operational use on its 20 B-2 Spirit stealth bombers.
Laggin' Dragon was the last of the fifteen Silverplate B-29s delivered to the 509th Composite Group for use in the atomic bomb operation. Built at the Glenn L. Martin Aircraft plant at Omaha, Nebraska, it was accepted by the USAAF on June 15, 1945, after most of the 509th CG had already left Wendover Army Air Field, Utah, for North Field, Tinian.
448th Bombardment Group, 1 May 1943; 509th Composite Group (later 509 Bombardment Group), 6 May 1946 (attached to 509th Bombardment Wing, 17 November 1947 – 14 September 1948 and after 1 February 1951) 509th Bombardment Wing, 16 June 1952 – 25 June 1966; 509th Bombardment Wing, 1 January 1970 – 30 September 1990