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The 7th Operations Group is a direct successor organization of the 7th Bombardment Group, one of the 15 original combat air groups formed by the United States Army before World War II. Activated in 1921, it inherited the lineage of the 1st Army Observation Group , which was established and organized, on 6 September 1918.
Main gate entrance sign 7th Bomb Wing Headquarters Abilene Army Airfield, mid-1940s.. Dyess Air Force Base (AFB) (IATA: DYS, ICAO: KDYS, FAA LID: DYS) is a United States Air Force (USAF) base located about 7 miles (11 km) southwest of downtown Abilene, Texas, and 150 miles (240 km) west of Fort Worth, Texas.
The 7th Bomb Wing closed Carswell AFB on 30 September 1993, transferring the installation to the U.S. Navy as NAS JRB Fort Worth and to Air Force Reserve Command as Carswell Air Reserve Station and moved to Dyess AFB, Texas without personnel or equipment on 1 October 1993.
In September, the Air Force announced Dyess Air Force Base as one of its main operating bases for its new stealth bomber. Dyess Air Force Base approved as B-21 bomber aircraft operating base Skip ...
Changes may be coming to Dyess Air Force Base and the Abilene area as the nation's new stealth bombers take to the skies. Dyess AFB is preferred as the second base for the B-21 Raiders and will ...
The U.S. Air Force evaluated environmental impacts of new bomber aircraft mission on Dyess AFB. The base is under review to house the new aircraft.
The Air Force reactivated the group as the Air Force Reserve Command's 489th Bomb Group on 17 October 2015, exactly 70 years after it was inactivated. [3] The 489th operates from Dyess Air Force Base near Abilene, Texas, flying Rockwell B-1 Lancers and is an associate unit of the Regular Air Force's 7th Bomb Wing , operating the same aircraft.
Stationed initially at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas, the squadron moved to Dyess Air Force Base, Texas in 1994 and transferred to the 7th Wing when McConnell was realigned as a tanker base. Currently, the 28th conducts weapons system training for B-1 crews.