327th Aircraft Sustainment Wing The 327th Aircraft Sustainment Wing ( 327 ASW ) is an inactive wing of the United States Air Force last based at Tinker Air Force Base , Oklahoma . It was last assigned to Air Force Material Command ' s Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center ( OC - ALC ) . History . World War II . The 327th Fighter Group was activated at Mitchel Field , NY and assigned to I Fighter Command in mid - 1942 with the 323d , 324th , and 325th Fighter Squadron s assigned . It became part of the air defense force in the upper Mid - Atlantic region , and also served as an operational training unit , using P - 40 Warhawk s until February 1943 when they were replaced by P - 47 Thunderbolt s . In 1944 the group began training replacement pilots for combat duty . In February 1944 , a fourth squadron , the 443d Fighter Squadron was activated and assigned to the group , as the group began a split operation , with The group and two squadrons remaining at Richmond Army Air Base while the other two squadrons moved to Norfolk Army Air Field , VA . The group was disbanded on 10 April 1944 and replaced by Army Air Forces AAF Base Units at Richmond and Norfolk as part of a major reorganization of the AAF in the United States in which combat units not programmed to be shipped overseas were replaced because standard military units based on relatively inflexible tables of organization proved less well adopted to the training mission and to free up manpower for overseas assignment . Cold War . The group was reconstituted , redesignated as the 327th Fighter Group ( Air Defense ) , and activated in 1955 to replace the 520th Air Defense Group as part of as part of Air Defense Command ' s Project Arrow , which was designed to bring back on the active list the fighter units which had compiled memorable records in the two world wars . It assumed the personnel and equipment of the 520th , while the 520th ' s operational squadrons , the 432d and 456th Fighter - Interceptor Squadron s ( FIS ) tansferred their personnel and rocket armed and radar equipped F - 86 Sabre s to the 323d and 325th FIS , which moved on paper to Truax from Larson AFB and Hamilton AFB , respectively . These moves were made because another purpose of Project Arrow was to reunite fighter squadrons with their traditional groups . The group was assigned air defense of Great Lakes area and also was the host organization for USAF units at Truax . It was assigned a number of support organizations to fulfill its host responsibilities . The group ' s 323d FIS converted to F - 102A Delta Dagger s in November 1956 , while the 325th FIS followed in February 1957 . In October 1957 , the 61st FIS was assigned to the group and moved to Truax Field from Ernest Harmon AFB , Canada , where it had been part of the 4731st Air Defense Group , in a swap with the 323d FIS , which replaced it at Ernest Harmon . The group was reduced to a single operational squadron in 1960 , when the 61st FIS inactivated . The 327th was inactivated in June 1966 . Modern Era . The 327th Aircraft Sustainment Wing organized , directed and controlled total life - cycle management of 94 B - 52 Stratofortress , 585 C / KC - 135 , 69 B - 1 Lancer and 416 contractor logistics ( including tanker , trainer , telemetry , airlift , command & control and US Presidential aircraft ) aircraft . Other supported systems included the B - 2 Spirit , E - 3 AWACS aircraft , Air Traffic Control and Landing Systems ( TRACALS ) , and the worldwide High Frequency Global Communications System . The wing was also responsible for modification and systems upgrade to these systems . It was inactivated in 2010 and replaced by the Aerospace Sustainment Directorate of OC - ALC .