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The 1st Fighter Wing (1 FW) is a United States Air Force unit assigned to the Air Combat Command Fifteenth Air Force.It is stationed at Langley Air Force Base, VA. where it is a tenant unit, being supported by the 633d Air Base Wing.
The 1st Fighter Wing was re-equipped with F-86 fighters in 1949 and the group was redesignated 1st Fighter-Interceptor Group (FIG) in April of the following year. In January 1950, while stationed at George Air Force Base , California, the 1st Group formed an aerial demonstration team, the "Sabre Dancers."
This page currently focuses on one of the two historical categories of USAF wings: "AFCON" (Headquarters (US) Air Force CONtrolled) units or "permanent" units, which during the Cold War period were readily distinguished by having one, two or three digit designations, such as the 1st Fighter Wing, 60th Military Airlift Wing, 355th Fighter Wing, and could go through a series of inactivations and ...
FF, the tail code of the USAF 1st Fighter Wing, is displayed on these F-22 Raptors. Tail codes are markings usually on the vertical stabilizer of U.S. military aircraft that help identify the aircraft's unit and/or base assignment.
1st Aircraft Maintenance Squadron: 1st Maintenance Group, 1st Fighter Wing: Joint Base Langley–Eustis [1] 2nd Aircraft Maintenance Squadron: Maintaining Global Power: 2nd Maintenance Group, 2nd Bomb Wing: Barksdale Air Force Base [2] 4th Aircraft Maintenance Squadron: 4th Maintenance Group, 4th Fighter Wing: Seymour Johnson Air Force Base [3]
Examples: 1st Fighter Wing, 21st Space Wing, and the Strategic Air Command's 509th Bomb Wing. All constituted wings have one, two, or three digits in their numerical designations. In many cases, the numerical designation of the wing came from the combat group that preceded it and became an integral part of the post-World War II wing.
1st Fighter Wing; 4th Fighter Wing; 8th Fighter Wing; 20th Fighter Wing; 31st Fighter Wing; 33rd Fighter Wing; 35th Fighter Wing; 48th Fighter Wing; 49th Fighter Wing; 50th Fighter Wing; 51st Fighter Wing; 52d Fighter Wing (Air National Guard) 52nd Fighter Wing; 53rd Fighter Wing; 54th Tactical Fighter Wing; 55th Fighter Wing; 56th Fighter Wing ...
323d Fighter Wing; Biggs AFB, Texas (29 July 1946 – 1 December 1948) 20th Fighter Group; Brooks AFB, Texas (23 March 1946 – 13 January 1947) 363d Reconnaissance Group; Clovis/Cannon AFB, New Mexico (23 July 1951 – 1 June 1992) 37th Fighter Wing (1953) 50th Fighter Wing (1953) 312th Fighter Wing (1954–1959) 27th Fighter Wing (1959–1992)