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Hamilton Field (Hamilton AFB) was a United States Air Force base, which was inactivated in 1973, decommissioned in 1974, and put into a caretaker status with the Air Force Reserve until 1976. It was transferred to the United States Army in 1983 and was designated an Army Airfield until its BRAC closure in 1988.
Mitchel Air Force Base, New York, 1 June 1949; McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, 10 October 1949 – 2 June 1951; Hamilton Air Force Base, California, 20 March 1953; Landstuhl Air Base, Germany, 4 July 1954; Hahn Air Base, Germany, 8 November 1956 [10] – 15 May 1991
Hamilton Air Force Base, California, 18 August 1955 – 18 October 1956. 408th Fighter Group (Air Defense) Kingsley Field, Oregon, 8 April 1956 – 1 March 1959: 542d Aircraft Control and Warning Group; Hamilton Air Force Base, California, 1 January 1951 – 6 February 1952. 566th Air Defense Group
The squadron returned to ADC in August 1954 when it was replaced by the 74th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron, which moved from Presque Isle Air Force Base, Maine and took over the 318th's Starfighters. In turn, the 318th moved to Presque Isle and equipped with the 74th's former Northrop F-89D Scorpions , armed with FFAR rockets . [ 7 ]
During the Cold War the group was reconstituted, redesignated as the 566th Air Base Group, and activated at Hamilton Air Force Base, California in 1952 [5] in a major reorganization of Air Defense Command (ADC) responding to ADC's difficulty under the existing wing base organizational structure to deploy fighter squadrons to best advantage. [6]
Hamilton AFB, California, September 1968 Castle AFB, California, August 1973 – June 1981 A/C to AMARC, squadron realigned to 84th FITS (T-33A) 87th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron (37) Duluth Airport, Minnesota, September 1968 K.I. Sawyer AFB, Michigan, May 1971 – October 1985 Inactivated, A/C to AMARC. 94th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron (48)
460th Army Air Force Base Unit (Base Services, Air Transport Command), 1 April 1944–8 May 1946 Hq, West Coast Wing, Air Transport Command, 1 August 1944–4 December 1945 Was: Hamilton Air Force Base (1947–1976) Now: Part of the Hamilton Wetland Restoration Project Known sub-bases and auxiliaries Montague Air Force Auxiliary Field Napa Army ...
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