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The 119th Wing (119 WG) is a composite unit of the North Dakota Air National Guard, stationed at Fargo Air National Guard Base, North Dakota. If activated to federal service, elements of the Wing are gained by the United States Air Force Air Combat Command .
119th Wing; Established 1 February 1947 (as: 178th Fighter Squadron) Stationed at: Fargo Air National Guard Base Gained by: Air Combat Command The mission of the 119th Wing is reconnaissance. The 178th Reconnaissance Squadron includes operations of the General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper, a medium-altitude, long-endurance, remotely piloted aircraft.
The 119th Wing is based at Fargo and operates the MQ-9A Reaper. [2] History. The North Dakota Air National Guard was established on 16 January 1947 at Hector ...
The 119th Fighter Wing's F-16As (15 aircraft) were reaching the end of their operational life and would retire. In Jan 2007, the 119th ended its F-16 mission after almost 60 years of air defense interceptor missions. Replacing the F-16s in 2007, the squadron began to receive the C-21A Learjet and was redesignated the 178th Airlift Squadron.
A McDonnell F-101B Voodoo of the 119th Fighter Wing, North Dakota Air National Guard, crashed into a house at 1121 26th Street N, Fargo, North Dakota, killing the pilot, 1st Lt Burton D. Humphrey, and injuring the house's occupant, Mrs. Gerald Reed. The weapon systems officer, 2nd Lt Sanford O. Borlaug, ejected from the aircraft and survived ...
Jul. 27—The Air National Guard 180th Fighter Wing and Wright-Patterson Air Force Base 88th Security Forces both scheduled separate exercises today. Alert fighter jets from the 180th Fighter Wing ...
The squadron was authorized in 2008 and activated at Fargo Air National Guard Base when the 178th Airlift Squadron of the 119th Airlift Wing was equipped with MQ-1 Predator unmanned aerial vehicles. The 178th was redesignated the 178th Reconnaissance Squadron and the C-21A Learjets it formerly operated being were transferred to the new 177th ...
Four F-15 fighter jets from 144th Fighter Wing of the California Air National Guard based in Fresno fly in a missing man formation over Community Regional Medical Center in 2020 as a salute to ...