The 159th Fighter Wing is a unit of the Louisiana Air National Guard, stationed at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans, Louisiana. If activated to federal service, it is gained by the United States Air Force Air Combat Command.
Louisiana Air National Guard's 159th Fighter Wing F-15C Eagles fly over southern Louisiana wetlands
122d Fighter-Interceptor Squadron – Convair F-102A Delta Dagger 56-1314
122d Tactical Fighter Squadron – North American F-100F-5-NA Super Sabre 56-3761
122d Tactical Fighter Squadron – McDonnell F-4C-18-MC Phantom 63-7506 still in Vietnam War camouflage livery
Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans
Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans is a base of the United States military located in Belle Chasse, unincorporated Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana, United States. NAS JRB New Orleans is home to a Navy Reserve aggressor squadron and a fleet logistics support squadron, the 159th Fighter Wing of the Louisiana Air National Guard, Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans, a detachment of a Marine Corps Reserve light helicopter attack squadron, as well as other US Navy and US Army activities. The base has a 24/7 operating schedule to support both the 159 FW's NORAD air sovereignty/homeland defense requirements and for Coast Guard Air Station New Orleans search and rescue/maritime law enforcement/port security missions. It contains a military airport known as Alvin Callender Field which is located three nautical miles (6 km) south of the central business district of New Orleans. The base's predecessor, NAS New Orleans, occupied the current location of the University of New Orleans's principal campus until 1957.
An F-15C Eagle of the US Air Force's 159th Fighter Wing taxing at NASJRB New Orleans during 2013
Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans
NAS New Orleans in the 1940s, located on the present-day main campus of the University of New Orleans