page_title: Second Allied Tactical Air Force
section_title: War time structure c. 1989
hierarchical_section_title: Second Allied Tactical Air Force / War time structure c. 1989
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Positionskarte Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany. Geographische Begrenzung der Karte: English: Location map North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Geographic limits of the map: Français&#160;: Carte du land Rhénanie-du-Nord-Westphalie (Allemagne) destinée à géolocalisation. Les limites géographiques sont: Coords↑52.552° N↓50.315° N←5.834° E→9.481° E Open this image as an overlay in Google Earth (Google Maps, Bing)(Help|Source)
context_page_description: Second Allied Tactical Air Force was a NATO military formation under Allied Air Forces Central Europe tasked with providing air support to NATO's Northern Army Group. 2ATAF commanded all flying units based within its sector and all reinforcements flying into its sector, as well as ground-based radar systems and stations, air defense units and the airfields in its sector.
  Second Allied Tactical Air Force was formed in 1958 with its area of responsibility covering the Netherlands, Belgium, and Germany north of the city of Kassel and south of the Elbe river. Commander of Second Allied Tactical Air Force was the commanding Air Chief Marshal of the British RAF Second Tactical Air Force, which was renamed RAF Germany on 1 January 1959.
  The peacetime headquarters of 2 ATAF were at RAF Rheindahlen, the command center in the case of war for 2ATAF and NORTHAG was in the Netherlands at Joint Operations Center Maastricht. In 1983 NATO began with the construction of Static War Headquarters Castlegate in Linnich, Germany, as a replacement for JOC Maastricht. Alternate War HQ was located at Kanne north of Fort Eben-Emael.
context_section_description: Headquarters Second Allied Tactical Air Force, RAF Rheindahlen/JOC Maastricht
  Air Defence Operations Center (ADOC), Kanne
  Sector Operations Center 1 (SOC 1), Aurich
  1st Btn, 34th (Luftwaffe) Signal Regiment, Control and Reporting Center Aurich
  2nd Btn, 34th (Luftwaffe) Signal Regiment, Control and Reporting Center Visselhövede
  3rd Btn, 34th (Luftwaffe) Signal Regiment, Control and Reporting Center Brekendorf
  Royal Netherlands Air Force, Control and Reporting Center Nieuw Milligen, Netherlands
  No. 225 Squadron, (3× I-Hawk launch stations & 3× Flycatcher/Bofors 40L70 AAA)
  Sector Operations Center 2 (SOC 2), Uedem
  1st Btn, 33rd (Luftwaffe) Signal Regiment, Control and Reporting Center Uedem
  3rd Btn, 33rd (Luftwaffe) Signal Regiment, Control and Reporting Center Brakel
  V. Training Group, 2nd Luftwaffe Technical School, Control and Reporting Center Erndtebrück
  Belgian Air Force, Control and Reporting Center Glons, Belgium
  4th Btn, 33rd (Luftwaffe) Regiment, Faßberg, with 12× mobile Radar systems forward deployed to the inner German border.
  Royal Air Force Germany, RAF Rheindahlen
  4 Wing, administrative control of RAF Regiment Rapier squadrons based in West Germany
  33 Wing, administrative control of RAF Regiment Light Armour squadrons based in West Germany
  RAF Bruggen, FRG
  No. 9 Squadron, 12× Tornado GR.1ⁿᵒᵗᵉ ¹
  No. 14 Squadron, 12× Tornado GR.1ⁿᵒᵗᵉ ¹
  No. 17 Squadron, 12× Tornado GR.1ⁿᵒᵗᵉ ¹
  No. 31 Squadron, 12× Tornado GR.1ⁿᵒᵗᵉ ¹
  No. 37 Squadron RAF Regiment, (Air Defence, 8× Rapier launch stations)
  No. 51 Squadron RAF Regiment, (Light Armour, 15× Spartan, 6× Scorpion)
  RAF Gütersloh, FRG
  No. 3 Squadron, 16× Harrier GR.5
  No. 4 Squadron, 16× Harrier GR.5
  No. 18 Squadron, 16× CH-47 Chinook (supporting British Army of the Rhine)
  No. 230 Squadron, 16× Puma HC.1 (supporting British Army of the Rhine)
  No. 63 Squadron RAF Regiment, (Air Defence, 8× Rapier launch stations)
  RAF Laarbruch, FRG
  No. 2 Squadron, 12× Tornado GR.1A (Reconnaissance)
  No. 15 Squadron, 12× Tornado GR.1ⁿᵒᵗᵉ ¹
  No. 16 Squadron, 12× Tornado GR.1ⁿᵒᵗᵉ ¹
  No. 20 Squadron, 12× Tornado GR.1ⁿᵒᵗᵉ ¹
  No. 1 Squadron RAF Regiment, (Light Armour, 15× Spartan, 6× Scorpion)
  No. 26 Squadron RAF Regiment, (Air Defence, 8× Rapier launch stations)
  RAF Wildenrath, FRG
  No. 19 Squadron, 16x Phantom FGR.2
  No. 92 Squadron, 16x Phantom FGR.2
  No. 60 Squadron, Andover CC.2 transport planes
  No. 16 Squadron RAF Regiment, (Air Defence, 8× Rapier launch stations)
  US Air Force
  485th Tactical Missile Wing, Florennes Air Base, BE
  71st Tactical Missile Squadron, 48× BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missiles
  Soesterberg Air Base, NL
  32d Tactical Fighter Group
  32d Tactical Fighter Squadron, 24× F-15C Eagle
  No. 221 (Dutch) Squadron, (3× I-Hawk launch stations)
  Nörvenich Air Base
  Forward deployed detachment of the 81st Tactical Fighter Wing, 8× A-10A Thunderbolt II
  Belgian Air Force
  1st Wing, Beauvechain Air Base
  349th Squadron, 24× F-16A Fighting Falcon
  350th Squadron, 24× F-16A Fighting Falcon
  2nd Wing, Florennes Air Base
  1st Squadron, 24× F-16A Fighting Falcon
  2nd Squadron, 24× F-16A Fighting Falcon
  3rd Wing, Bierset Air Base
  8th Squadron, 36× Mirage 5BA
  42nd Squadron, 22× Mirage 5BR (Reconnaissance)
  9th Wing, Sint-Truiden Air Base
  7th Squadron, 16× Alpha Jet's
  11th Squadron, 16× Alpha Jets
  10th Wingⁿᵒᵗᵉ ², Kleine Brogel Air Base
  23rd Squadron, 24× F-16A Fighting Falcon
  31st Squadron, 24× F-16A Fighting Falcon
  Missile Wing, Düren, FRG
  Wing Staff, Düren
  9th Operations Group, Grefrath, FRG
  54th Squadron, Xanten, (9x MIM-14 Nike Hercules launch stations, disbanded 1989)
  56th Squadron, Grefrath, (9x MIM-14 Nike Hercules launch stations)
  13th Operations Group, Düren, FRG
  50th Squadron, Düren, (9x MIM-14 Nike Hercules launch stations)
  51st Squadron, Blankenheim, (9x MIM-14 Nike Hercules launch stations, disbanded 1989)
  Missile Support Group, Düren, FRG
  Belgian Army
  43rd Artilleriebataljon, Brakel
  A/43rd Company, Beverungen with 6× MIM-23 Hawk stations
  B/43rd Company, Höxter with 6× Hawk launch stations
  C/43rd Company, Brakel with 6× Hawk launch stations
  D/43rd Company, Bad Driburg 6× Hawk launch stations
  62nd 
caption: Royal Air Force Germany bases with flying units in 1989 (all located in North Rhine-Westphalia)
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