419th Tactical Fighter Training Squadron

419th Tactical Fighter Training Squadron
	Emblem of the 419th Tactical Fighter Training Squadron
Active	1969-1971
Country	United States
Branch	United States Air Force

Last updated March 05, 2019

The 419th Tactical Fighter Training Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last assigned to the 23d Tactical Fighter Wing and stationed at McConnell Air Force Base, Kansas.

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McConnell Air Force Base is a United States Air Force base located four miles (6 km) southeast of the central business district of Wichita, a city in Sedgwick County, Kansas, United States. The airbase was named in honor of the brothers Fred and Thomas McConnell of Wichita, who had both been Air Force pilots and veterans of World War II. It is the home of Air Mobility Command's 22d Air Refueling Wing, Air Force Reserve Command's 931st Air Refueling Wing, and the Kansas Air National Guard's 184th Intelligence Wing.

History

Initially established by Tactical Air Command as an F-105 training squadron in August 1967 as the provisional 4519th Combat Crew Training Squadron:. Re-designated as the AFCON 419th TFTS in October 1969, assuming the training mission of the provisional squadron. Inactivated in October 1971 with the phaseout of the F-105 at McConnell.

Tactical Air Command (TAC) is an inactive United States Air Force organization. It was a Major Command of the United States Air Force, established on 21 March 1946 and headquartered at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia. It was inactivated on 1 June 1992 and its personnel and equipment absorbed by Air Combat Command (ACC).

Lineage

Established as 4519th Combat Crew Training Squadron and activated on 1 August 1967

Re-designated 419th Tactical Fighter Training Squadron on 15 October 1969

Inactivated on 1 October 1971

Assignments

23d Tactical Fighter Wing, 1 August 1967 – 1 October 1971

Stations

McConnell AFB, Kansas, 1 August 1967 – 1 October 1971

Aircraft

F-105 Thunderchief, 1967-1971

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References

This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency website http://www.afhra.af.mil/ .

The Air Force Historical Research Agency is the repository for United States Air Force historical documents. The Agency's collection, begun during World War II in Washington, D.C. and moved in 1949 to Maxwell Air Force Base, the site of Air University, to provide research facilities for professional military education students, the faculty, visiting scholars, and the general public.

Ravenstein, Charles A. (1984). Air Force Combat Wings Lineage and Honors Histories 1947–1977. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-912799-12-9.

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