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The 509th Weapons Squadron is a United States Air Force unit. It is assigned to the USAF Weapons School at Fairchild Air Force Base, Washington.The squadron is a geographically separated unit of the 57th Wing at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada.
The 393rd BS ("Tigers"), a traditional squadron of the 509th, was activated as a B-2 squadron on 27 August 1993. It is the USAF's only operational bomb squadron. 509th Operations Support Squadron; A non-flying squadron, the 509th OSS ("Hawks") controls all airfield activities at Whiteman.
509th Weapons Squadron: Fairchild AFB: KC-135: ... Inactive 4537th Fighter Weapons Squadron: Nellis AFB: F-105: See also. United States Air Force Weapons School;
341st SMW/OG; B-47 squadron, 1956–1961 "Farsiders" 508th Missile Squadron: Whiteman AFB: LGM-30B Minuteman I, 1963–1967 LGM-30F Minuteman II, 1966–1995 1963–1995 351st SMW/OG 509th Missile Squadron: Whiteman AFB: LGM-30B Minuteman I, 1963–1967 LGM-30F Minuteman II, 1966–1994 1963–1994 351st SMW/OG 510th Missile Squadron: Whiteman AFB
The wing's 509th Operations Group is a direct descendant organization of the World War II 509th Composite Group (509th CG). The 509th CG had a single mission: to drop the atomic bomb . The group made history on 6 August 1945, when the Boeing B-29 Superfortress " Enola Gay ," piloted by Col. Paul W. Tibbets Jr. , dropped the first atomic bomb on ...
The reorganization process, which took place between January and September 1963, applied to 22 B-52 Strategic Wings, three Air Refueling Wings, and the 4321st Strategic Wing at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska, which had a strategic missile squadron assigned. "These units were discontinued and two and three-digit AFCON units were activated.
In 1942, the U.S. Army Air Corps selected the site of the present-day base to be the home of Sedalia Glider Base, a training base for WACO glider pilots.In May 1942, construction workers began building a railroad spur for the new air base in an area known to locals as the "Blue Flats" because of the color of the soil.
The squadron was redesignated the 509th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron and activated in April 1959, when the 405th Fighter Wing replaced the 6200th Air Base Wing at Clark Air Base, Philippines. The squadron assumed the mission, personnel and North American F-86D Sabres of the 26th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron , which was simultaneously inactivated.