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Plattsburgh Air Force Base is a former United States Air Force (USAF) Strategic Air Command (SAC) base covering 3,447 acres (13.7 km 2) in the extreme northeast corner of New York, located on the western shore of Lake Champlain opposite Burlington, Vermont, in the town of Plattsburgh, New York.
KC-97 refueling B-47 Stratojet. The 380th Air Refueling Squadron was first activated in the summer of 1954 at Lincoln Air Force Base, Nebraska.It moved to Plattsburgh Air Force Base, New York in 1956 with Boeing KC-97 Stratofreighters providing air refueling to SAC B-47s and other USAF aircraft as directed.
The division's wings now were located at Plattsburgh, and for the second time the 820th Combat Support Group replaced the 380th as the division resumed responsibility for support duties at the base. [ 2 ] [ 9 ] In October, the division added another weapons system, the SM-65 Atlas intercontinental ballistic missile , as the 556th Strategic ...
During the Vietnam War, starting in 1965, SAC would deploy over two complete Bombardment Wings including Bombardment Squadrons, Air Refueling Squadrons, including the Maintenance & Support Squadrons and their personnel to Andersen AFB, Guam (B-52 Bomber and a few supporting tanker aircraft), Kadena AB, Okinawa, (B-52 Bomber & the Primary Tanker Aircraft Base) & Kung Kuan (Later renamed ...
This is a list of United States Air Force air refueling squadrons. Air refueling squadrons Squadron Shield Location Nickname Aircraft Status 2nd Air Refueling Squadron McGuire AFB "Second to None" KC-46 Pegasus Active 6th Air Refueling Squadron Travis AFB, Fairfield CA Strength Extended KC-10 Extender Active 7th Air Refueling Squadron Carswell AFB, Ft. Worth TX KC-135A Inactivated 1993 9th Air ...
Plattsburgh AFB, Plattsburgh, NY (H). 820th Air Division 1956–1962; 820th Strategic Aerospace Division 1962–1965 308th Bomb Wing 1959–1961;
Inactivated in 1993; Wurtsmith AFB closed per BRAC. 380th Strategic Aerospace Wing, Plattsburgh AFB, New York; B-52G, 1966–1971 528th Bombardment Squadron (a/c from 70th BS) Re-equipped with FB-111s in 1971; Inactivated 1995 and Plattsburgh AFB closed per BRAC. 397th Bombardment Wing (Heavy), Dow AFB, Maine; Activated to replace: 4038th ...
Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-89201-092-4 . Williams, Theodore J., and Gotham, Barbara J., WE WENT TO WAR: A WWII Wartime Roster of the 380th Bombardment Group (H), PART II: A Roster of the Flight Crews of the 380th Bomb Group (H), published by Theodore J. Williams, West Lafayette, Indiana, September 1999.