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B-1B Fact Sheet on af.mil; B-1B product page and B-1B history page on Boeing.com; B-1 history page on NASA/Langley Research Center site; B-1B Lancer in Airman Magazine's Airframe Profiles; B-1B Lancer USAF 20-year history article at archive.today (archived 12 December 2012)
B-1B 1986-1994 366th Wing: 34 BS: Ellsworth AFB, SD Mountain Home AFB, ID: B-1B 1994-1997 1997-2002 Redesignated 366th Fighter Wing: 384th Bomb Wing: 28 BS: McConnell Air Force Base, KS: B-1B 1987-1994 412th Test Wing: 419 FTS: Edwards AFB, CA: B-1B 1992–present 96th Bombardment Wing: 337 BS 338th Combat Crew Training Squadron (CCTS) 4018 ...
The wing is one of only two B-1B Lancer strategic bomber wings in the United States Air Force, the other being the 7th Bomb Wing at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas. Active for over 60 years, the 28th was a component wing of Strategic Air Command 's deterrent force throughout the Cold War .
On the morning of 15 December 1992, the last Boeing B-52G Stratofortress, serial 57-6492, the "Old Crow Express," was flown to Davis–Monthan Air Force Base, Arizona for storage. [citation needed] The group was inactivated two weeks later. [1] The group was reactivated in 2003 as the 379th Expeditionary Operations Group.
On 1 January 1987, the squadron activated and transitioned to its current aircraft, the Rockwell B-1B Lancer. Along with all other active bomber units in the air force it changed its name and became the 37th Bomb Squadron on 1 September 1991.
The United States flew a long-range B-1B bomber over the Korean Peninsula on Wednesday for its first precision-guided bombing drill with South Korea in seven years, the South's military said. The ...
The wing is one of only two B-1B Lancer strategic bomber wings in the USAF, the other being the 28th Bomb Wing at Ellsworth Air Force Base, South Dakota. The 317th Airlift Wing , assigned to Air Mobility Command Eighteenth Air Force , is a tenant unit and one of four world-wide active-duty locations for the C-130 Hercules military transport ...
The 28th flies the Rockwell B-1B Lancer intercontinental strategic bomber. It is the largest bomb squadron in the Air Force. It is the largest bomb squadron in the Air Force. The squadron's mission is to provide all B-1 initial qualification, requalification, and instructor upgrade training for Global Strike Command .