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Tyndall Air Force Base (IATA: PAM, ICAO: KPAM, FAA LID: PAM) is a United States Air Force Base located 12 miles (19 km) east of Panama City, Florida. The base was named in honor of World War I pilot 1st Lt. Frank Benjamin Tyndall. The base operating unit and host wing is the 325th Fighter Wing (325 FW) of the Air Combat Command (ACC).
These aircraft provide ocean surface surveillance and relay missile and target telemetry for over-the-horizon coverage of the Gulf Range and also support over-land telemetry missions for the weapons system evaluation program at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, and the Utah Test and Training Range near Hill Air Force Base. The squadron is a ...
McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, 4 October 1949; Suffolk County Air Force Base, New York, 18 August 1955 – 31 December 1969; Wurtsmith Air Force Base, Michigan1, 1 July 1971 – 31 March 1973; Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, 1 September 1974 – 30 September 2010; Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida, 22 August 2014 – present [2]
Tyndall Air Force Base has a storied history, but who was it named after and why?
The first five F-22 Raptors left Holloman AFB for Tyndall AFB on 6 January 2014 with the final four-ship tactical sortie being flown on 20 February. The final F-22 departed for Tyndall AFB on 9 April 2014 and the 44 FG completed its relocation from Holloman to Tyndall as an AFRC associate unit to the 325th Fighter Wing (325 FW) on 12 July 2014.
SEADS Region shown in NORAD Region/Sector Configuration, 1987-2005 Historical map of Montgomery Air Defense Sector, 1957-1966. The Southeast Air Defense Sector (SEADS), was a unit of the US Air Force located at Tyndall Air Force Base near Panama City, Florida.
The 325th Tactical Training Squadron was activated in October 1983 and overtime absorbed the controller training mission conducted at Tyndall Air Force Base. After being renamed the 325th Training Squadron in November 1991 the two squadrons were consolidated in June 1999. In 2001 the squadron was redesignated as the 325th Air Control Squadron. [3]
The 43rd Fighter Squadron is part of the 325th Fighter Wing at Tyndall Air Force Base, Florida.It conducts advanced fighter training for F-22 Raptor pilots.. The squadron is one of the oldest in the United States Air Force, its origins dating to 13 June 1917, when it was organized at Kelly Field, Texas as the 43d Aero Squadron.