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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 ...
MacDill Air Force Base (MacDill AFB) (IATA: MCF, ICAO: KMCF, FAA LID: MCF) is an active United States Air Force installation located 4 miles (6.4 km) south-southwest of downtown Tampa, Florida. The "host wing" for MacDill AFB is the 6th Air Refueling Wing (6 ARW), assigned to the Eighteenth Air Force of the Air Mobility Command .
Dover AFB, Delaware (1 April 1946 – 1 December 1948) 320th AAF/Air Force Base Unit; Dyess AFB, Texas (15 October 1969 – 1 December 1974) 516th Tactical Airlift Wing (1969–1972) 463d Tactical Airlift Wing (1972–1974) Alexandria/England AFB, Louisiana (21 March 1946 – 1 December 1948, 1 December 1950 – 1 June 1992) 366th Fighter Wing ...
An associate unit of the 6th Air Refueling Wing (6 ARW) of the Air Mobility Command (AMC), both units share and fly the same Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker aircraft at MacDill AFB and at forward deployed locations. The 927 ARW also mirrors the 6 ARW in nearly every aircraft maintenance and mission support function with parallel squadrons.
Tenant SAC unit on ATC base. Inactivated in 1989; Mather AFB closed in 1991 per BRAC. 340th Bombardment Wing (Heavy), Bergstrom AFB, Texas; Activated to replace: 4130th Strategic Wing B-52D, 1963–1966 486th Bombardment Squadron (a/c from 335 BS) Inactivated in 1966; reactivated and equipped with FB-111s in 1968
B-47 training was originally planned to have been performed at Wichita AFB, Kansas, with Boeing manufacturing the aircraft on one side of the base as a joint tenant beginning in 1951. However a variety of problems converting the Wichita Municipal Airport to an Air Force Base kept training from being performed there until 1954.
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The wing was first organized at Turner Air Force Base, Georgia on 1 November 1950 as the 12th Fighter-Escort Wing, but moved a month later to Bergstrom Air Force Base, Texas. [ 1 ] The wing was reactivated as the 12th Tactical Fighter Wing and organized in April 1962 at MacDill Air Force Base , Florida. [ 1 ]