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Manning, Thomas A. (2005), History of Air Education and Training Command, 1942–2002. Office of History and Research, Headquarters, AETC, Randolph AFB, Texas OCLC 71006954, 29991467; Shaw, Frederick J. (2004), Locating Air Force Base Sites, History’s Legacy, Air Force History and Museums Program, United States Air Force, Washington DC.
A portion of the wartime Eagle Pass airfield was reopened under the name of Laughlin AF Aux #1 in 1962 for touch and go landings by T-37 Tweet training aircraft based at Laughlin AFB. The wartime NW/SE (14/32) runway was refurbished and asphalted, with the runway extended to the southeast to accommodate overruns on each end.
Biggs Field (later Biggs Air Force Base), Texas, 20 October 1946; Barksdale Air Force Base, Louisiana, 19 November 1948 – 2 October 1949; Langley Air Force Base, Virginia, 12 March 1951 – 21 May 1952; Sculthorpe RAF Station (later, RAF Sculthorpe), England, 1 June 1952 – 8 February 1955; Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas, 15 December 1991 ...
The 47th Flying Training Wing is a United States Air Force pilot training wing based at Laughlin Air Force Base, near Del Rio, Texas.It is one of five pilot training units in the Air Force's Air Education and Training Command which conducts joint specialized undergraduate pilot training for the United States Air Force, Air Force Reserve, Air National Guard and allied nation air forces ...
Lockbourne Air Force Base, Ohio, 8 April 1956; Duluth International Airport, Minnesota, 30 Sep 1968; K.I. Sawyer Air Force Base, Michigan, 1 May 1971 – 1 Oct 1985; Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas, 2 Apr 1990 – present [9]
434th Fighter Squadron P-51B [note 2]. The squadron was activated on 15 October 1943 at Grand Central Air Terminal.It was initially equipped with the Lockheed P-38F Lightning and trained for combat to serve as an air defense organization for the west coast as part of IV Fighter Command.
In April 1990 the squadron was resurrected to meet the increased demand for pilots. The 84th was designated a Flying Training Squadron and joined the 85th Flying Training Squadron in training pilots in the Cessna T-37 Tweet at Laughlin Air Force Base. Again yielding to changes in pilot production the squadron was inactivated in October 1992.
The 96th Flying Training Squadron is part of the 340th Flying Training Group and is the reserve associate to the 47th Flying Training Wing based at Laughlin Air Force Base, Texas. It operates T-1 Jayhawk, T-6 Texan II, and T-38 Talon aircraft conducting flight training.