page_title: United States Air Force in Europe 1989
section_title: Seventeenth Air Force
hierarchical_section_title: United States Air Force in Europe 1989 / United States Air Forces in Europe / Seventeenth Air Force
caption_attribution_description: A U.S. Air Force McDonnell Douglas F-4G Phantom II Wild Weasel aircraft (s/n 69-0248) from the 480th Tactical Fighter Squadron, foreground, and a General Dynamics F-16C Fighting Falcon aircraft of the 52nd Tactical Fighter Wing commander fly over the German countryside on 1 June 1989. The F-16C is carrying an AIM-9L/M Sidewinder missiles on its outer wing pylons and both aircraft are armed with AGM-88 HARM missiles. The F-4G also carries AIM-7 Sparrow missiles.
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: Seventeenth Air Force, at Sembach Air Base
  65th Air Division, at Lindsey Air Station
  52d Tactical Fighter Wing, at Spangdahlem Air Base
  23d Tactical Fighter Squadron, with 12x F-4G Phantom II Wild Weasel and 12x F-16C Block 25 Falcon
  81st Tactical Fighter Squadron, with 12x F-4G Phantom II Wild Weasel and 12x F-16C Block 25 Falcon
  480th Tactical Fighter Squadron, with 12x F-4G Phantom II Wild Weasel and 12x F-16C Block 25 Falcon
  66th Electronic Combat Wing, at Sembach Air Base
  42d Electronic Combat Squadron, detached to Third Air Force, at RAF Upper Heyford, UK
  43d Electronic Combat Squadron, with EC-130H Compass Call
  316th Air Division, at Ramstein Air Base
  86th Tactical Fighter Wing, at Ramstein Air Base
  512th Tactical Fighter Squadron, with 24x F-16C Block 30 Falcon
  526th Tactical Fighter Squadron, with 24x F-16C Block 30 Falcon
  377th Combat Support Wing, at Ramstein Air Base
  26th Tactical Reconnaissance Fighter Wing, at Zweibrücken Air Base
  38th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, with 22x RF-4C Phantom II
  36th Tactical Fighter Wing, at Bitburg Air Base
  22d Tactical Fighter Squadron, with 24x F-15C Eagle
  53d Tactical Fighter Squadron, with 24x F-15C Eagle
  525th Tactical Fighter Squadron, with 24x F-15C Eagle
  50th Tactical Fighter Wing, at Hahn Air Base
  10th Tactical Fighter Squadron, with F-16C Block 25 Falcon
  313th Tactical Fighter Squadron, with F-16C Block 25 Falcon
  496th Tactical Fighter Squadron, with F-16C Block 25 Falcon
  38th Tactical Missile Wing, at Pydna Missile Base, Germany
  89th Tactical Missile Squadron, with 96x BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missiles
  485th Tactical Missile Wing, at Florennes Air Base, Belgium
  71st Tactical Missile Squadron, with 48x BGM-109G Ground Launched Cruise Missiles
  601st Tactical Control Wing, at Sembach Air Base (operating AN/TPS-43 mobile radars)
  7100th Combat Support Wing, at Lindsey Air Station
  7100th Supply Squadron
  7100th Transportation Squadron
  7100th Comptroller Squadron
  7100th Combat Support Wing Medical Center, in Wiesbaden (GE), Medical Center Compound
  18th Aeromedical Staging Flight
  610th USAF Contingency Hospital, at Lindsey Air Station (GE)
  652d USAF Contingency Hospital, in Donaueschingen (GE), Donaueschingen Contingency Hospital Annex
  653d USAF Contingency Hospital, in Wiesbaden (GE)
  7261st Munitions Support Squadron, in Memmingerberg (GE), Fliegerhorst Memmingen (special weapons storage and maintenance)
  7361st Munitions Support Squadron, at Kleine Brogel Air Base, Belgium (special weapons storage and maintenance)
  7362d Munitions Support Squadron, at Volkel Air Base, Netherlands (special weapons storage and maintenance)
  7501st Munitions Support Squadron, in Alflen (GE), Büchel Air Base (special weapons storage and maintenance)
  7502d Munitions Support Squadron, in Nörvenich (GE), Nörvenich Air Base (special weapons storage and maintenance)
  4th Air Support Operations Group, in Frankfurt am Main (Liaison with V US Corps)
  8th Air Support Operations Group, in Stuttgart (Liaison with VII US Corps)
  32d Tactical Fighter Squadron, with 24x F-15C Eagle, at Soesterberg Air Base, Netherlands
  7104th Air Base Group, at Chièvres Air Base, Belgium
caption: A F-4G Phantom II Wild Weasel from 480th Tactical Fighter Squadron and a F-16C Block 25 Falcon from 52nd Tactical Fighter Wing Commander fly over Germany in June 1989
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