page_title: 497th Combat Training Flight
section_title: Cold War
hierarchical_section_title: 497th Combat Training Flight / History / Cold War
caption_attribution_description: English: 497th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron North American F-86D-40-NA Sabre 52-3698, Geiger Field, Washington, 1955
context_page_description: The 497th Combat Training Flight is a United States Air Force unit. Its present assignment is to Singapore's Paya Lebar Air Base, where its mission is to provide operational and logistical support to U.S. Air Force fighter aircraft deployed to Singapore for training exercises with the Republic of Singapore Air Force.
context_section_description: Air defense of West coast, 1953–1955.
  Air Defense of Southwest Europe, 1958–1964.  In the early 1960s Headquarters, United States Air Force (USAF) implemented Project Clearwater.  Clearwater was designed to return overseas Convair F-102 Delta Dagger squadrons stationed overseas to the United States to reduce "gold flow" (adverse balance of payments). This resulted in the 497th being reduced to a paper unit and its planes dispersed to Air Defense Command interceptor squadrons in the US. Although it had originally been intended to inactivate the unit, it was instead transferred to Tactical Air Command as a paper unit.
caption: North American F-86D Sabre 52-3698 at Geiger Field in 1955
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