page_title: 405th Air Expeditionary Wing
section_title: Tactical Training Wing
hierarchical_section_title: 405th Air Expeditionary Wing / History / Cold War / Tactical Training Wing
caption_attribution_description: English: 461st Tactical Fighter Training Squadron McDonnell Douglas F-15E-43-MC Strike Eagle 87-172 1990. Aircraft Crashed 42 nautical miles south-south-west of Gila Bend, AZ Sep 16, 1991. Pilot survived.
context_page_description: The 405th Air Expeditionary Wing is a provisional United States Air Force unit assigned to Air Combat Command. It may be activated or inactivated at any time.
  Currently, it is believed that the 405 AEW is inactive.
context_section_description: On 25 August 1979, the 405th Tactical Training Wing was activated at Luke AFB, Arizona by Tactical Air Command to consolidate the F-15 Eagle Replacement Training Unit (RTU) operations.  It took over the 425th, 461st 550th and 555th Tactical Fighter Training Squadrons from the 58th Tactical Training Wing.  The F-15As were replaced by the much more capable F-15C in January 1981 which was being delivered to front-line USAF combat squadrons.
  With the upgrading to the F-15C, the lowest-hour F-15As were transferred to the 426th Tactical Fighter Training Squadron which converted from F-4 Phantom II.  The 426th provided F-15A interceptor training specifically to support the TAC Air Defense Command (ADTAC) training mission inherited from the inactivated Aerospace Defense Command which was merged into TAC.  The F-15As in front-line units were being reassigned to Air Defense duty with ADTAC.
  On 19 November 1990, the 555th TFTS changed its course from air superiority combat training with the Eagle to air defense interceptor training with the F-15C when TAC began assigning F-15Cs to Air National Guard interceptor duty and phasing out the F-15A all together, the 426th being inactivated.
  The 461st TFTS received first F-15E Strike Eagle, July 1988, and the 550th TFTS became the second F-15E Strike Eagle training squadron in March 1989.
  On 1 October 1991, due to the implementation of the Objective Wing at Luke and the "One base, one wing" policy, the 405th TTW was shut down and the F-15s were reassigned back to the 58th TTW.
caption: 461st Tactical Fighter Training Squadron McDonnell Douglas F-15E-43-MC Strike Eagle 87–172 1990. Aircraft Crashed 42 nautical miles south-south-west of Gila Bend, AZ 16 September 1991. Pilot survived.
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