List of wings of the United States Air Force

This is a list of wings in the United States Air Force, focusing on AFCON wings. Air Force active duty and civilian personnel strength now must be at 1,000 or more for wings.

AFCON versus MAJCOM Wings

This page currently focuses on one of the two historical categories of USAF wings: "AFCON" (Headquarters (US) Air Force CONtrolled) units or "permanent" units, which during the Cold War period were readily distinguished by having one, two or three digit designations, such as the 1st Fighter Wing, 60th Military Airlift Wing, 355th Fighter Wing, and could go through a series of inactivations and activations and still retain their lineage.

There were also MAJCOM (major air command controlled) wings, such as the Strategic Wings of the 50s and 60s, which, under the USAF organization and lineage system, are four-digit units, for example, the 4137th Strategic Wing, and whose lineage (histories, awards, and battle honors) ended with their discontinuance and could never be revived. MAJCOM wings are fundamentally "temporary", though many stayed in existence for a very long time, and then were revived with a different name but the same number. But under the USAF lineage system they cannot carry on the histories of the previous unit.

When the B-52 dispersal began in the fifties, the new Strategic Air Command units created to support this program were MAJCOM wings and given four-digit designations. Headquarters SAC was well aware of the historical significance of records and accomplishments of the strategic wings and the need to perpetuate this lineage as well as the lineage of many illustrious units that were no longer active.

In order to retain the lineage of the combat units and to perpetuate the lineage of many currently inactive units with illustrious World War II records, Headquarters SAC received authority from Headquarters USAF to discontinue its strategic wings that were equipped with combat aircraft and to activated AFCON units, most of which were inactive at the time.

The reorganization process, which took place from January to September 1963, was applied to 22 B-52 strategic wings, three air-refueling wings, and the 4321st Strategic Wing at Offutt Air Force Base, Nebraska. "These units were discontinued and two and three-digit AFCON units were activated. In most cases, the bombardment squadron that had been assigned to the strategic wings were inactivated and bombardment squadrons that had previously been assigned to the newly-activated wings were activated. While these actions were almost tantamount to redesignation, they were not official redesignation. Therefore, the records, awards and achievements of the strategic wing could not be inherited by the bomb wings."^[1]

During the Gulf War of 1990–91 MAJCOM wings, such as the 7440th Composite Wing (Provisional) at Incirlik AB, Turkey, served alongside Provisional Wings such as the 801st Bomb Wing (Provisional) at Morón Air Base, Spain, and other AFCON wings.

In the 1990s MAJCOM wings were mostly inactivated and replaced with AFCON wings. Perhaps the most well known example was the 4404th Wing in Saudi Arabia which was replaced by a three-digit AFCON wing, the 363rd Air Expeditionary Wing. It is not clear whether any MAJCOM wings still exist, or whether the system is still in use.

Active USAF Wings

Wing	(type)	Base	Air Force	Command	Equipment
1st Fighter Wing	(FW)	Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia	Fifteenth Air Force	ACC	F-22A
1st Special Operations Wing	(SOW)	Hurlburt Field, Florida	^[a]	AFSOC	CV-22, AC-130, MC-130
2nd Bomb Wing	(BW)	Barksdale AFB, Louisiana	Eighth Air Force	AFGSC	B-52
3rd Wing	(WG)	Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska	Eleventh Air Force	PACAF	F-22A, C-17, E-3
4th Fighter Wing	(FW)	Seymour Johnson AFB, North Carolina	Fifteenth Air Force	ACC	F-15E
5th Bomb Wing	(BW)	Minot AFB, North Dakota	Eighth Air Force	AFGSC	B-52
6th Air Refueling Wing	(ARW)	MacDill AFB, Florida	Eighteenth Air Force	AMC	KC-135
7th Bomb Wing	(BW)	Dyess AFB, Texas	Eighth Air Force	AFGSC	B-1
8th Fighter Wing	(FW)	Kunsan Air Base, Korea	Seventh Air Force	PACAF	F-16
9th Reconnaissance Wing	(RW)	Beale AFB, California	Sixteenth Air Force	ACC	U-2, T-38
10th Air Base Wing	(ABW)	U.S. Air Force Academy, Colorado	USAFA	Direct Reporting Unit
11th Wing	(WG)	Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling, DC	AFDW	Direct Reporting Unit	USAF Band, USAF Honor Guard
12th Flying Training Wing	(FTW)	Joint Base San Antonio, Texas	Nineteenth Air Force	AETC	T-6, T-38
14th Flying Training Wing	(FTW)	Columbus AFB, Mississippi	Nineteenth Air Force	AETC	T-6, T-38, T-1
15th Wing	(WG)	Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam, Hawaii	Eleventh Air Force	PACAF	C-17, F-22
17th Training Wing	(TRW)	Goodfellow AFB, Texas	Second Air Force	AETC
18th Wing	(WG)	Kadena Air Base, Japan	Fifth Air Force	PACAF	F-15C, KC-135, E-3
19th Airlift Wing	(AW)	Little Rock AFB, Arkansas	Eighteenth Air Force	AMC	C-130
20th Fighter Wing	(FW)	Shaw AFB, South Carolina	Fifteenth Air Force	ACC	F-16CJ
22nd Air Refueling Wing	(ARW)	McConnell AFB, Kansas	Eighteenth Air Force	AMC	KC-135, KC-46
23rd Wing	(WG)	Moody AFB, Georgia	Fifteenth Air Force	ACC	A-10, HH-60 Pave Hawk, MC-130
24th Special Operations Wing	(SOW)	Hurlburt Field, Florida	^[b]	AFSOC	Special Tactics Squadrons
27th Special Operations Wing	(SOW)	Cannon AFB, New Mexico	^[c]	AFSOC	MC-130W, MQ-1B, RQ-9, PC-12
28th Bomb Wing	(BW)	Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota	Eighth Air Force	AFGSC	B-1
31st Fighter Wing	(FW)	Aviano Air Base, Italy	Third Air Force	USAFE	F-16, HH-60G, Control and Reporting Center
33rd Fighter Wing	(FW)	Eglin AFB, Florida	Nineteenth Air Force	AETC	F-35
35th Fighter Wing	(FW)	Misawa Air Base, Japan	Fifth Air Force	PACAF	F-16
36th Wing	(WG)	Andersen AFB, Guam	Eleventh Air Force	PACAF	Rotational Bomb Squadrons
37th Training Wing	(TRW)	Joint Base San Antonio, Texas	Second Air Force	AETC
39th Air Base Wing	(ABW)	Incirlik AB, Turkey	Third Air Force	USAFE
42nd Air Base Wing	(ABW)	Maxwell-Gunter AFB, Alabama	Air University	AETC
47th Flying Training Wing	(FTW)	Laughlin AFB, Texas	Nineteenth Air Force	AETC	T-6, T-38
48th Fighter Wing	(FW)	RAF Lakenheath, England	Third Air Force	USAFE	F-15E, F-35A
49th Wing	(WG)	Holloman AFB, New Mexico	Nineteenth Air Force	AETC	MQ-1, RQ-9
51st Fighter Wing	(FW)	Osan Air Base, Korea	Seventh Air Force	PACAF	F-16, A-10, C-12J
52nd Fighter Wing	(FW)	Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany	Third Air Force	USAFE	F-16
53rd Wing	(WG)	Eglin AFB, Florida	USAF Warfare Center	ACC	F-15C, F-15E F-15EX, F/QF-16, A-10, F-22A, RQ-1 F-35A
55th Wing	(WG)	Offutt AFB, Nebraska	Sixteenth Air Force	ACC	RC-135, EC-130, E-4
56th Fighter Wing	(FW)	Luke AFB, Arizona	Nineteenth Air Force	AETC	F-16, F-35A, Control and Reporting Center
57th Wing	(WG)	Nellis AFB, Nevada	USAF Warfare Center	ACC	F-15C, F-15E, F-16, A-10, HH-60
58th Special Operations Wing	(SOW)	Kirtland AFB, New Mexico	Nineteenth Air Force	AETC	HC-130J, MC-130J, CV-22, UH-1N, HH-60W
59th Medical Wing	(MDW)	Joint Base San Antonio, Texas		AETC
60th Air Mobility Wing	(AMW)	Travis AFB, California	Eighteenth Air Force	AMC	C-5, C-17
62nd Airlift Wing	(AW)	Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington	Eighteenth Air Force	AMC	C-17
67th Cyberspace Wing	(CW)	Joint Base San Antonio, Texas	Sixteenth Air Force	ACC
70th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Wing	(ISRW)	Fort George G. Meade, Maryland	Sixteenth Air Force	ACC
71st Flying Training Wing	(FTW)	Vance AFB, Oklahoma	Nineteenth Air Force	AETC	T-6, T-38, T-1
72nd Air Base Wing	(ABW)	Tinker AFB, Oklahoma	Air Force Sustainment Center	AFMC
75th Air Base Wing	(ABW)	Hill AFB, Utah	Air Force Sustainment Center	AFMC
76th Maintenance Wing	(MXW)	Tinker AFB, Oklahoma	Air Force Sustainment Center	AFMC
78th Air Base Wing	(ABW)	Robins AFB, Georgia	Air Force Sustainment Center	AFMC
79th Medical Wing	(MDW)	Joint Base Andrews, Maryland	AFDW	Direct Reporting Unit
80th Flying Training Wing	(FTW)	Sheppard AFB, Texas	Nineteenth Air Force	AETC	T-6, T-38
81st Training Wing	(TRW)	Keesler AFB, Mississippi	Second Air Force	AETC	Technical Training
82nd Training Wing	(TRW)	Sheppard AFB, Texas	Second Air Force	AETC	Technical Training
86th Airlift Wing	(AW)	Ramstein Air Base, Germany	Third Air Force	USAFE	C-21, C-130
87th Air Base Wing	(ABW)	Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey	USAF Expeditionary Center	AMC
88th Air Base Wing	(ABW)	Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio	Air Force Life Cycle Management Center	AFMC
89th Airlift Wing	(AW)	Joint Base Andrews, Maryland	Eighteenth Air Force	AMC	C-32, C-37, C-40
90th Missile Wing	(MW)	Francis E. Warren AFB, Wyoming	Twentieth Air Force	AFGSC	Minuteman III
91st Missile Wing	(MW)	Minot AFB, North Dakota	Twentieth Air Force	AFGSC	Minuteman III
92nd Air Refueling Wing	(ARW)	Fairchild AFB, Washington	Eighteenth Air Force	AMC	KC-135
93rd Air Ground Operations Wing	(AGOW)	Moody AFB Georgia	Ninth Air Force	ACC
94th Airlift Wing	(AW)	Dobbins Air Reserve Base, Georgia	Twenty-Second Air Force	AFRC	C-130
96th Test Wing	(TW)	Eglin AFB, Florida	Air Force Test Center	AFMC	F-15C, F-15E, F-16, A-10, AC-130, MH-53
97th Air Mobility Wing	(AMW)	Altus AFB, Oklahoma	Nineteenth Air Force	AETC	C-17, KC-135, KC-46
99th Air Base Wing	(ABW)	Nellis AFB, Nevada	USAF Warfare Center	ACC
100th Air Refueling Wing	(ARW)	RAF Mildenhall, England	Third Air Force	USAFE	KC-135 Stratotanker
301st Fighter Wing	(FW)	NAS Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base, Texas	Tenth Air Force	AFRC	F-16C
302nd Airlift Wing	(AW)	Peterson SFB, Colorado	Twenty-Second Air Force	AFRC	C-130
305th Air Mobility Wing	(AMW)	Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey	Eighteenth Air Force	AMC	KC-46, C-17
307th Bomb Wing	(BW)	Barksdale AFB, Louisiana	Tenth Air Force	AFRC	B-52
309th Maintenance Wing	(MXW)	Hill AFB, Utah	Air Force Sustainment Center	AFMC
310th Space Wing	(SW)	Schriever SFB, Colorado	Tenth Air Force	AFRC
314th Airlift Wing	(AW)	Little Rock AFB. Arkansas	Nineteenth Air Force	AETC	C-130
315th Airlift Wing	(AW)	Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina	Fourth Air Force	AFRC	C-17
316th Wing	(WG)	Joint Base Andrews, Maryland	AFDW	Direct Reporting Unit	UH-1N
317th Airlift Wing	(AW)	Dyess Air Force Base, Texas	Eighteenth Air Force	AMC	C-130J
319th Reconnaissance Wing	(RW)	Grand Forks AFB, North Dakota	Sixteenth Air Force	ACC	RQ-4
325th Fighter Wing	(FW)	Tyndall AFB, Florida	Fifteenth Air Force	ACC	F-22A
341st Missile Wing	(MW)	Malmstrom AFB, Montana	Twentieth Air Force	AFGSC	Minuteman III
349th Air Mobility Wing	(AMW)	Travis AFB, California	Fourth Air Force	AFRC	C-5, C-17
350th Spectrum Warfare Wing	(SWW)	Eglin AFB, Florida	USAF Warfare Center	ACC
352nd Special Operations Wing	(SOW)	RAF Mildenhall, United Kingdom	^[d]	AFSOC	CV-22B, MC-130J
353rd Special Operations Wing	(SOW)	Kadena Air Base, Japan	^[e]	AFSOC	CV-22B, MC-130J
354th Fighter Wing	(FW)	Eielson AFB, Alaska	Eleventh Air Force	PACAF	F-16, F-35A
355th Wing	(FW)	Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona	Fifteenth Air Force	ACC	HH-60W, HC-130J
363rd Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Wing	(ISRW)	Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia	Sixteenth Air Force	ACC
366th Fighter Wing	(FW)	Mountain Home AFB, Idaho	Fifteenth Air Force	ACC	F-15E Strike Eagle
374th Airlift Wing	(AW)	Yokota Air Base, Japan	Fifth Air Force	PACAF	C-21, C-130, UH-1N,
375th Air Mobility Wing	(AMW)	Scott AFB, Illinois	Eighteenth Air Force	AMC	C-21
377th Air Base Wing	(ABW)	Kirtland AFB, New Mexico	Twentieth Air Force	AFGSC
388th Fighter Wing	(FW)	Hill AFB, Utah	Fifteenth Air Force	ACC	F-35A
402nd Maintenance Wing	(MXW)	Robins AFB, Georgia	Air Force Sustainment Center	AFMC
403rd Wing	(WG)	Keesler AFB, Mississippi	Twenty-Second Air Force	AFRC	WC-130
412th Test Wing	(TW)	Edwards AFB, California	Air Force Test Center	AFMC	RQ-4 Range Hawk
419th Fighter Wing	(FW)	Hill AFB, Utah	Tenth Air Force	AFRC	F-35A
432nd Wing	(WG)	Creech Air Force Base, Nevada	Fifteenth Air Force	ACC	MQ-9, RQ-170
433rd Airlift Wing	(AW)	Joint Base San Antonio, Texas	Fourth Air Force	AFRC	C-5
434th Air Refueling Wing	(ARW)	Grissom Air Reserve Base, Indiana	Fourth Air Force	AFRC	KC-135
435th Air Ground Operations Wing	(AGOW)	Ramstein Air Base, Germany	Third Air Force	USAFE
436th Airlift Wing	(AW)	Dover AFB, Delaware	Eighteenth Air Force	AMC	C-5, C-17
437th Airlift Wing	(AW)	Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina	Eighteenth Air Force	AMC	C-17
439th Airlift Wing	(AW)	Westover Air Reserve Base. Chicopee, MA	Fourth Air Force	AFRC	C-5
442nd Fighter Wing	(FW)	Whiteman AFB, Missouri	Tenth Air Force	AFRC	A-10
445th Airlift Wing	(AW)	Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio	Fourth Air Force	AFRC	C-17
446th Airlift Wing	(AW)	Joint Base Lewis-McChord, Washington	Fourth Air Force	AFRC	C-17
448th Supply Chain Management Wing	(SCMW)	Tinker AFB, Oklahoma	Air Force Sustainment Center	AFMC
452nd Air Mobility Wing	(AMW)	March Air Reserve Base, California	Fourth Air Force	AFRC	KC-135, C-17
459th Air Refueling Wing	(ARW)	Joint Base Andrews, Maryland	Fourth Air Force	AFRC	KC-135
461st Air Control Wing	(ACW)	Robins AFB, Georgia	Fifteenth Air Force	ACC
480th Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Wing	(ISRW)	Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia	Sixteenth Air Force	ACC
482nd Fighter Wing	(FW)	Homestead Air Reserve Base, Florida	Tenth Air Force	AFRC	F-16
492nd Special Operations Wing	(SOW)	Hurlburt Field, Florida	^[f]	AFSOC
501st Combat Support Wing	(CSW)	RAF Alconbury, England	Third Air Force	USAFE	GSU advocacy and support
502nd Air Base Wing	(ABW)	Joint Base San Antonio, Texas		AETC	Joint Basing Host Wing
505th Command and Control Wing	(CCW)	Hurlburt Field, Florida	USAF Warfare Center	ACC	Operational-level C2
507th Air Refueling Wing	(ARW)	Tinker AFB, Oklahoma	Fourth Air Force	AFRC	KC-135
509th Bomb Wing	(BW)	Whiteman AFB, Missouri	Eighth Air Force	AFGSC	B-2
512th Airlift Wing	(AW)	Dover AFB, Delaware	Twenty-Second Air Force	AFRC	C-5
514th Air Mobility Wing	(AMW)	Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey	Fourth Air Force	AFRC	C-17
515th Air Mobility Operations Wing	(AMOW)	Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam, Hawaii	USAF Expeditionary Center	AMC
521st Air Mobility Operations Wing	(AMOW)	Ramstein AB, Germany	USAF Expeditionary Center	AMC
552nd Air Control Wing	(ACW)	Tinker AFB, Oklahoma	Fifteenth Air Force	ACC	Control and Reporting Center, E-3 Sentry
557th Weather Wing	(WW)	Offutt AFB, Nebraska	Sixteenth Air Force	ACC
615th Contingency Response Wing	(CRW)	Travis AFB, California	USAF Expeditionary Center	AMC
621st Contingency Response Wing	(CRW)	Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey	USAF Expeditionary Center	AMC
628th Air Base Wing	(ABW)	Joint Base Charleston, South Carolina	USAF Expeditionary Center	AMC	Joint Basing Host Wing
633rd Air Base Wing	(ABW)	Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia	Fifteenth Air Force	ACC	Joint Basing Host Wing
635th Supply Chain Operations Wing	(SCOW)	Scott AFB, Illinois	Air Force Sustainment Center	AFMC	Global Logistics Support Center
673rd Air Base Wing	(ABW)	Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska	Eleventh Air Force	PACAF	Joint Basing Host Wing
688th Cyberspace Wing	(CW)	Joint Base San Antonio, Texas	Sixteenth Air Force	ACC
711th Human Performance Wing	(HPW)	Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio	Air Force Research Laboratory	AFMC
908th Flying Training Wing	(FTW)	Maxwell-Gunter AFB, Alabama	Twenty-Second Air Force	AFRC	MH-139A
910th Airlift Wing	(AW)	Youngstown Air Reserve Station, Ohio	Twenty-Second Air Force	AFRC	C-130
911th Airlift Wing	(AW)	Pittsburgh Joint Air Reserve Station, Pennsylvania	Fourth Air Force	AFRC	C-130
914th Air Refueling Wing	(ARW)	Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station, New York	Fourth Air Force	AFRC	KC-135
916th Air Refueling Wing	(ARW)	Seymour Johnson AFB, North Carolina	Fourth Air Force	AFRC	KC-46
919th Special Operations Wing	(SOW)	Duke Field, Florida	Tenth Air Force	AFRC	MC-130
920th Rescue Wing	(RQW)	Patrick SFB, Florida	Tenth Air Force	AFRC	HC-130, HH-60
926th Wing	(WG)	Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada	Tenth Air Force	AFRC	Associate squadrons
927th Air Refueling Wing	(ARW)	MacDill Air Force Base, Florida	Fourth Air Force	AFRC	KC-135
931st Air Refueling Wing	(ARW)	McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas	Fourth Air Force	AFRC	KC-135, KC-46
932nd Airlift Wing	(AW)	Scott AFB, Illinois	Twenty-Second Air Force	AFRC	C-40 Clipper
934th Airlift Wing	(AW)	Minneapolis-St Paul Joint Air Reserve Station, Minnesota	Twenty-Second Air Force	AFRC	C-130
940th Air Refueling Wing	(ARW)	Beale AFB, California	Fourth Air Force	AFRC	KC-135
944th Fighter Wing	(FW)	Luke AFB, Arizona	Tenth Air Force	AFRC	F-16, A-10

Inactive USAF Wings

Wing	(type)	Base	Inactivated
440th Airlift Wing	(AW)	Pope Field, North Carolina	18 Sep 2016
478th Aeronautical Systems Wing	(ASW)	Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio	1 Jun 2009
689th Combat Communications Wing	(CCW)	Robins Air Force Base, Georgia	30 Sep 2013
939th Air Refueling Wing	(ARW)	Portland Air Reserve Station, Oregon	30 Jun 2008

Active Air National Guard Wings

List of Active Wings of the United States Air National Guard

Air Expeditionary Wings

List of Air Expeditionary units of the United States Air Force

AFCON and MAJCOM wings

Notes

^ There are no AFSOC Numbered Air Forces
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References

^ Office of the Historian, Headquarters Strategic Air Command, Offutt AFB, NE. The Development of the Strategic Air Command 1946–1986, Pages 117–118.

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[3] There are no AFSOC Numbered Air Forces

[4] There are no AFSOC Numbered Air Forces

[5] There are no AFSOC Numbered Air Forces

[6] There are no AFSOC Numbered Air Forces

[7] There are no AFSOC Numbered Air Forces

[1] Office of the Historian, Headquarters Strategic Air Command, Offutt AFB, NE. The Development of the Strategic Air Command 1946–1986, Pages 117–118.

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