page_title: 539th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron
section_title: Air Defense Command
hierarchical_section_title: 539th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron / History / Air Defense Command
caption_attribution_description: English: 539th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron North American F-86D-45-NA Sabre 52-3936, Stewart AFB, New York, 1954
context_page_description: The 539th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron is an inactive United States Air Force unit. Its last assignment was with the New York Air Defense Sector at McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey, where it was inactivated on 31 August 1967.
context_section_description: It was reactivated as part of the United States Air Force Air Defense Command.  In January 1955 it received F-86D's and in August 1955 the unit designation was transferred to McGuire Air Force Base as the 539th Fighter Interceptor Squadron where it received F-86L's.  In May 1959 the squadron transitioned to F-106A becoming the first squadron in the United States Air Force to be equipped with the F-106's.
  On 22 October 1962, before President John F. Kennedy told Americans that missiles were in place in Cuba, the squadron dispersed one third of its force, equipped with nuclear tipped missiles to Olmsted Air Force Base at the start of the Cuban Missile Crisis.  These planes returned to McGuire after the crisis.
  The 539th was inactivated 31 August 1967 as part of the phasedown of the ADC interceptor force.
caption: North American F-86D Sabre 52-3936 at Stewart AFB in 1954
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