List of inactive AFCON wings of the United States Air Force

This is a list of inactive Wings in the United States Air Force, focusing on AFCON (HQ Air Force-controlled) wings.

Non-flying or non-combat wings, such as the 1st Medical Service Wing and 1st-7th Weather Wings, 13th, 24th, 25th, 29th, 30th 39th, 59th, 73d, 75th Air Depot Wing, 77th Air Depot Wing, 80th Air Depot Wing, 85th Air Depot Wing, and 88th Air Depot Wings, 39th and 40th Aerospace Rescue and Recovery Wings, 82nd Combat Security Police Wing, 501st and 601st Tactical Control Wings, 601st Tactical Air Control Wing, 602d Tactical Air Control Wing (later Air Control Wing, inactivated June 15, 1992),^[1] 603d Air Base Wing,^[2] 901st-908th Reserve Training Wings (906th at Miami (Miami News, June 24, 1951); 907th at Brooks AFB), Reserve Air Depot Training Wings, are listed in Charles A. Ravenstein, "Air Force Combat Wings: Lineage and Honors Histories 1947-77," Office of Air Force History, Washington DC 1984, viii.

Air Depot Wings

The 25th Air Depot Wing was activated at Hill Air Force Base, Utah, on 27 October 1949 with Brigadier General Norris B. Harbold assigned as the wing commander. The mission of the wing was to provide depot maintenance and supply support to four combat wings, with its normal assignment to the Air Materiel and Service Division, or to Air Materiel and Service Force. The wing was integrated into the Ogden Air Materiel Area from July to December 1950.^[3]

The 30th Air Depot Wing was located at RAF Sealand, but plans were made to relocate it to RAF Brize Norton, both in the UK.^[4] Most assigned personnel of the 30th Air Depot Group were reassigned to the 7558th Air Depot Group of the 59th Air Depot Wing, effective from 26 November 1951. All staff sections of the 30th Air Depot Wing were dissolved, and a Consolidated Adjutant and Military Personnel Section was formed. 30th Air Depot Wing was relieved from assignment to the 59th Air Depot Wing effective 27 November 1951. 30th Air Depot Wing began operating as a tenant organization at RAF Sealand, with base support for the wing being provided by the 7558th Air Depot Group as of 27 November 1951. Jurisdiction of RAF Sealand was transferred from the 30th Air Depot Wing to the 7558th Air Depot Wing on 27 November 1951.

Wing	Shield	Location	MAJCOM	Date Inactivated	Replaced By
1st Air Base Wing		Andrews AFB, Maryland	Headquarters Command	30 Sep 1977	76th Air Base Group
1st Space Wing[5]		Peterson AFB, Colorado	AFSPC	15 May 1992	21st Space Wing
1st Weather Wing
2d Space Wing[6]		Schriever AFB, Colorado	AFSPC	30 Jan 1992	50th Space Wing
2d Weather Wing
3d Space Wing		Peterson AFB, Colorado	AFSPC	1992	21st Space Wing
11th Air Control Wing		Elmendorf AFB, Alaska	AAC	??	??
25th Tactical Reconnaissance Wing		Chambly Air Base, France	USAFE	15 Oct 1966
26th Intelligence Wing		Zweibrücken Air Base, Germany	USAFE	1991	Downgraded to group status
29th Flying Training Wing		Craig AFB, Alabama	ATC	September 30, 1977
38th Combat Support Wing		Ramstein Air Base, Germany	USAFE	May 1, 2007
41st Rescue and Weather Reconnaissance Wing		McClellan AFB, California	MAC	Inactivated
44th Missile Wing		Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota	AFPSC	July 5, 1995
54th Tactical Fighter Wing		Kunsan Air Base, South Korea	PACAF	October 31, 1970
63d Military Airlift Wing		Norton AFB, California	MAC	Inactivated
64th Flying Training Wing		Reese AFB, Texas	AETC	Inactivated
73d Aerospace Surveillance Wing		Edwards AFB, California	ADC	Inactivated 30 Apr 1971	Seemingly no successor HQ; squadrons reassigned
75th Air Depot Wing		Chinhae Air Base, South Korea	Fifth Air Force?	The 75th Air Depot Wing arrived in South Korea from Texas on January 2, 1953, replacing the 6405th Air Support Wing. The wing may have been disestablished in January 1956.
83d Fighter-Day Wing
85th Tactical Fighter Training Wing		NAS Keflavik, Iceland	ACC	redesignated 85th Group
85th Air Depot Wing		Erding Air Base, Germany	USAFE	The 7200th Air Depot Wing was redesignated as the 85 ADW on 25 July 1949. 85 ADW WAS TRANSFERRED TO 12 AIR FORCE 21 JAN 51. ON 10 JUL 52, 85 ADW AND ITS SUPPORTING UNITS WERE REASSIGNED FROM 12 AIR FORCE TO HEADQUARTERS, USAFE. On 1 December 1953, ALL UNITS OF THE 85 ADW WERE INACTIVATED.	Personnel assigned to Headquarters 85 ADW were reassigned to the newly activated 7485th Air Depot Wing.[7]
87th Troop Carrier Wing
306th Strategic Wing		RAF Mildenhall, England	SAC	Inactivated
313th Tactical Airlift Wing
322d Tactical Airlift Wing
340th Bombardment Wing
342d Fighter-Day Wing
345th Tactical Bombardment Wing
347th Rescue Wing		Moody AFB, Georgia	ACC	Inactivated 2006
351st Missile Wing
360th Strategic Fighter Wing
369th Strategic Fighter Wing
381st Strategic Missile Wing
384th Air Expeditionary Wing			ACC	Inactive
385th Strategic Aerospace Wing
389th Strategic Missile Wing		F. E. Warren AFB, Wyoming	SAC	Inactivated 1965
390th Strategic Missile Wing		Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona	SAC	Inactivated 1984
392d Strategic Missile Wing
397th Bombardment Wing
407th Strategic Fighter Wing		Great Falls AFB, Montana	SAC	Inactivated 1957
408th Strategic Fighter Wing		Never active	SAC	Established on 23 March 1953	Activated as 413 TFW, TAC, 1957
413th Tactical Fighter Wing		George AFB, California	TAC	Inactivated on 15 March 1959	Does not seem to have been replaced; activated in the Reserve as 413th Flight Test Group, 1 October 2003.
416th Bombardment Wing		Griffiss AFB, NY	SAC	Inactivated 30 September 1995	Base closed and wing not replaced; active as provisional group in Uzbekistan, 2002-05.
438th Military Airlift Wing
441st Troop Carrier Wing
443d Military Training Wing (Training)
449th Bombardment Wing
450th Bombardment Wing
454th Bombardment Wing
456th Bombardment Wing		Beale AFB, California	SAC	Inactivated
461st Bombardment Wing
462d Strategic Aerospace Wing
463d Tactical Airlift Wing
464th Tactical Airlift Wing		Pope AFB, North Carolina	TAC	Inactivated 1971
465th Bombardment Wing
473d Fighter-Day Wing
474th Tactical Fighter Wing
475th Air Base Wing		Yokota AB, Japan	PACAF	Inactivated 1992	374th Airlift Wing
479th Tactical Training Wing		Holloman AFB, NM	Tactical Air Command?	26 July 1991	479th Fighter Group
483d Composite Wing		Cam Ranh Bay AB, South Vietnam	?	31 May 1972	Not replaced ?
487th Air Expeditionary Wing		Cairo West, Egypt	ACC (Inactive)	April - later 2003
494th Bombardment Wing, Heavy		Sheppard AFB, Texas	SAC	Inactivated 1966
497th Air Refueling Wing		Plattsburgh AFB	SAC	September 15, 1964
499th Air Refueling Wing		Westover Air Force Base, Mass.	TAC	Inactivated 25 June 1966	Not replaced (?)
500th Air Refueling Wing		Selfridge AFB	SAC	December 15, 1964
506th Tactical Fighter Wing
507th Tactical Air Control Wing		Shaw AFB	TAC		507 C&C Group 15 July 1958; 507 TCG 1 July 1964; 507 TACG 15 June 1974; 507 TACW 1 October 1976. Redesignated 507 ACW 1 October 1991. Inactivated 12 June 1992; disbanded 8 September 1994.[8] Included 20th TASS, 1990–91; 703rd TASS, 1967-88.
513th Tactical Airlift Wing		RAF Mildenhall, UK			100th Air Refueling Wing became host unit
526th ICBM Systems Wing		Hill AFB, Utah	AFMC	2007	526th ICBM Systems Group
542d Crew Training Wing		Kirtland AFB, New Mexico	MAC/AMC	1994	58th Special Operations Wing
550th Guided Missiles Wing
554th Electronic Systems Wing		Hanscom AFB, Massachusetts	AFMC	Jun 2010	Became Program Executive Office Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS)[9]
580th Air Resupply and Communications Wing
581st Air Resupply and Communications Wing
582nd Air Resupply and Communications Wing
601st Tactical Air Control Wing		Sembach Air Base, FRG	USAFE	Activated 1968, became group, became Air Base Wing 1993, inactivated 1995
633d Special Operations Wing		Pleiku Air Base, South Vietnam	PACAF	1970	Not replaced - base closed
656th Special Operations Wing		Nakhon Phanom Airport, Thailand	PACAF	1975	Not replaced (?) - base closed soon afterwards
701st Tactical Missile Wing
702d Strategic Missile Wing				Heritage carried on by 352d Special Operations Group, RAF Alconbury, UK
703d Strategic Missile Wing
704th Strategic Missile Wing
705th Strategic Missile Wing
706th Strategic Missile Wing
913th Airlift Wing		NAS Willow Grove, Pennsylvania	AFRC	2007
926th Fighter Wing		NAS New Orleans, Louisiana	AFRC	2007	926th Group

The 650th Air Base Wing was replaced as the host unit at Edwards AFB, CA., by the 95th Air Base Wing in the mid 1990s.

References

1. http://www.mobileradar.org/Documents/0602acw.pdf
2. The 38th Tactical Missile Wing inactivated in September 1966. The 2d Mobile Communications Group moved to Sembach Air Base in November 1966 from Toul-Rousieres Air Base, France after the French withdrawal from NATO's integrated military force structure. The 603d Air Base Wing was activated after the departure of the 38th TMW to administer Sembach Air Base and to support the 601st Tactical Control Group (TCG) and the 7th Air Commando Squadron. The 601st Tactical Air Control Wing (TCW) was activated on 1 July 1968, absorbing the mission of the 603rd ABW.
3. http://www.airforcehistoryindex.org/data/000/462/925.xml
4. http://www.airforcehistoryindex.org/display.php?irisnum=462935&p=y
5. 1st Space Wing lineage at USAF FOIA site
6. 2d Space Wing Lineage and Honors History at USAF FOIA site
7. Airforcehistoryindex.org, Record Card for Erding Journal Annual Issue, 1953.
8. USAF via MobileRadar.org, 507th Tactical Air Control Wing Unit Lineage and Honors, accessed May 2015.
9. http://www.maxwell.af.mil/news/story.asp?id=123211970