page_title: Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base
section_title: F-100 Super Sabre deployments
hierarchical_section_title: Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base / History / United States Advisory Forces / F-100 Super Sabre deployments
caption_attribution_description: English: 522d Tactical Fighter Squadron F-100D Takhli 1963
context_page_description: Takhli Royal Thai Air Force Base is a Royal Thai Air Force facility in central Thailand, approximately 144 miles northwest of Bangkok in Takhli District, Nakhon Sawan Province.
context_section_description: The first USAF personnel began arriving at Takhli RTAFB on 10 February 1961 when the 27th Tactical Fighter Wing (TFW) from Cannon AFB, New Mexico began deploying F-100D Super Sabres to the base to attack the Pathet Lao who were overrunning most of northwestern Laos. At Takhli, base support for the rotating Tactical Air Command (TAC) F-100 squadrons was provided by the 6011th ABS. In an organizational change, the 331st Air Base Squadron replaced the 6011th ABS at Takhli in July 1963 as the host unit at Takhli. The 331st ABS came under the command and control of 35th Tactical Group at Don Muang Royal Thai Air Force Base, near Bangkok.
  The 27th TFW kept a rotational Temporary duty assignment (TDY) of three squadrons of F-100s in Takhli until November 1965 when F-105 Thunderchiefs began to arrive on a permanent basis. During February 1963, the rotational squadrons of F-100s from Cannon was reduced to six aircraft, with the deployments from Cannon ending in March 1964 and the squadrons deploying instead to Da Nang Air Base in South Vietnam.
  In response to the Gulf of Tonkin Incident 10 F-100s from the 510th Tactical Fighter Squadron of the 405th Fighter Wing at Clark Air Base were deployed to Takhli. The first recorded combat loss was an F-100D (56–3085), shot down on 18 August 1964 over Laos. The Clark F-100s remained at Takhli until 20 August 1965 on a rotating basis.
  F-100 Super Sabre squadrons deployed to Takhli were:
  522d Tactical Fighter Squadron (27th TFW)
  Deployed: 13 February-c. 7 March 1961; 5 February-15 June 1962; 12 December 1962-c. 15 February 1963; 16 March-6 May 1964; 8 August-15 November 1964; 15 August-25 November 1965
  523d Tactical Fighter Squadron (27th TFW)
  Deployed: 5 September-20 November 1961; 12 October 1962-c. 15 January 1963; 17 September-20 November 1963; 12 June-4 September 1964; 22 March-30 June 1965
  524th Tactical Fighter Squadron (27th TFW)
  Deployed: 10 February-16 June 1961; 30 October-14 November 1961; 9 June-c. 27 June 1963; 21 January-19 March 1964; 1 December 1964 – 28 March 1965
  510th Tactical Fighter Squadron (405th TFW)
  Deployed: 11 May – 8 June 1962
  In November 1965 the last rotating F-100 squadron departed Takhli, to be replaced by the F-105D Thunderchief.
caption: 522d Tactical Fighter Squadron F-100DS at Takhli, 1963
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