page_title: United States Air Force in Europe 1989
section_title: Third Air Force
hierarchical_section_title: United States Air Force in Europe 1989 / United States Air Forces in Europe / Third Air Force
caption_attribution_description: An F-111F aircraft from the 493rd Tactical Fighter Squadron takes off for a mission over West Germany during Certain Sentinel, a part of Exercise REFORGER '86. Location: Hahn Air Base, Germany.
context_page_description: At the end of the Cold War elements of the United States Air Force in Europe consisted of the following units, which in case of war with the Warsaw Pact would have been assigned to NATO.
  The primary source for this listing of units is O.W. Dragoner's United States Air Force 1989, with additions and amendments from the official fact sheets of the Air Force Historical Research Agency. Where the two sources disagree, AFHRA data has been used.
context_section_description: Third Air Force, at RAF Mildenhall, United Kingdom
  10th Tactical Fighter Wing, at RAF Alconbury
  509th Tactical Fighter Squadron, with 24x A-10 Thunderbolt II
  511th Tactical Fighter Squadron, with 24x A-10 Thunderbolt II
  20th Tactical Fighter Wing, at RAF Upper Heyford
  55th Tactical Fighter Squadron, with 24x F-111E
  77th Tactical Fighter Squadron, with 24x F-111E
  79th Tactical Fighter Squadron, with 24x F-111E
  42d Electronic Combat Squadron, with 18x EF-111A Raven, detached from the 66th Electronic Combat Wing, at Sembach Air Base, West Germany
  48th Tactical Fighter Wing, at RAF Lakenheath
  492d Tactical Fighter Squadron, with 24x F-111F
  493d Tactical Fighter Squadron, with 24x F-111F
  494th Tactical Fighter Squadron, with 24x F-111F
  495th Tactical Fighter Squadron, with 24x F-111F (Training Squadron)
  81st Tactical Fighter Wing, at RAF Bentwaters
  78th Tactical Fighter Squadron, with 24x A-10 Thunderbolt II (based at RAF Woodbridge)
  91st Tactical Fighter Squadron, with 24x A-10 Thunderbolt II (based at RAF Woodbridge)
  92d Tactical Fighter Squadron, with 24x A-10 Thunderbolt II
  510th Tactical Fighter Squadron, with 24x A-10 Thunderbolt II
  527th Tactical Fighter Training Squadron, with 16x F-16C Falcon fighters for aggressor training
  513th Airborne Command and Control Wing, at RAF Mildenhall
  10th Airborne Command and Control Squadron, with E-3 Sentry AWCS
  303d Tactical Missile Wing, at RAF Molesworth
  87th Tactical Missile Squadron, with 64x BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missiles
  501st Tactical Missile Wing, at RAF Greenham Common
  11th Tactical Missile Squadron, with 96x BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missiles
  7020th Air Base Group, at RAF Fairford, USAFE's only B-52 Stratofortress heavy bomber base
  7274th Air Base Group, at RAF Chicksands
caption: A F-111F aircraft from 493rd Tactical Fighter Squadron takes off from Hahn Air Base for a mission over West Germany during Exercise REFORGER '86.
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