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Redesignated: 57th Fighter Weapons Wing on 1 March 1980 Redesignated: 57th Fighter Wing on 1 October 1991 Redesignated: 57th Wing on 15 June 1993. *Note: The 57th Fighter Wing (Provisional) was established on 16 April 1947 at Fort Richardson, Alaska, as one of the "Base-Wing" concept provisional Table of Distribution (T/D) organizations. The ...
On 1 November 1991, the group was redesignated the 57th Operations Group and activated [1] as a result of the 57th Fighter Wing implementing the USAF objective wing organization. The 57 OG was assigned control of the wing's tactical units.
Became Weapons School F-15C Division when the USAF Fighter Weapons School redesignated each of its squadrons as "Divisions" in 1981. First F-22A received July 2010. The last F-15C class graduated in December 2021. 561st Weapons Squadron: 16 July 2019 Previously was the 561st Joint Tactics Squadron assigned to 57th Wing.
Assigned to the 57th Fighter Weapons Wing, the 414th was tasked with combat crew training, using the McDonnell F-4C Phantom II aircraft. [5] Aircraft initially tail coded "WD", wing tail code "WA" was adopted in October 1971. upgrading to the F-4D and last, the F-4E, tail coded "WA" with black/yellow check tail stripe. [6]
37th Fighter Wing (1953) 50th Fighter Wing (1953) 312th Fighter Wing (1954–1959) 27th Fighter Wing (1959–1992) 57th Fighter Weapons Wing (1970–1972) Charleston AFB, South Carolina (23 April 1952 – 1 March 1955) 456th Troop Carrier Group/Wing; Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona (1 October 1976 – 1 June 1992) 355th Fighter Wing; Donaldson AFB ...
In 1982 the 422 Fighter Weapons Squadron's name changed to the 422d Test and Evaluation Squadron (TES), to better reflect its role. [6] In 1985, the F-4E was retired from the 422 TES. During this time, the F-16C began testing at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona, as the 57th Fighter Weapons Wing, Det 1. In October 1987, Det 1 was closed at Luke, and ...
The 57th Weapons Squadron is a United States Air Force unit. It is assigned to the USAF Weapons School , stationed at the McChord AFB component of Joint Base Lewis-McChord , Washington. The squadron is a geographically separated unit of the 57th Wing at Nellis Air Force Base , Nevada.
Reactivated as part of the 57th Fighter Weapons Wing at Nellis AFB, Nevada on 1 October 1976. Mission of the squadron was test and evaluate systems modifications to the McDonnell Douglas F-15A Eagle prior to those changes being released to operational units of Tactical Air Command and USAFE .