The 163rd Fighter Squadron is a unit of the Indiana Air National Guard's 122nd Fighter Wing, located at Fort Wayne Air National Guard Base, Indiana. The 163rd is equipped with the F-16 Fighting Falcon
163rd Fighter Squadron Fairchild Republic A-10A Thunderbolt II 82-0661
365th Fighter Squadron P-47D
163rd Tactical Fighter Squadron – F-84F Thunderstreaks about 1967 in Vietnam War camouflage.
163rd Tactical Fighter Squadron F-100D Super Sabre
The Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II, also widely known by the nickname Warthog, is a single-seat, twin-turbofan, straight-wing, subsonic attack aircraft developed by Fairchild Republic for the
163rd Fighter Squadron
…1987 and 1989. These large-intake models were mainly coming from the Michigan Air National Guard 107th Fighter Squadron which was transitioning to the A-10 Thunderbolt II at the time. With the upgrade to the Block 30 aircraft, the tail code of the 163rd was changed from "FW" (Fort Wayne) to "IN" (Indiana) in 2009 when…
An A-10 of the 74th Fighter Squadron after taking on fuel over Afghanistan in 2011
By the time of the Vietnam War, the 1940s-vintage propeller-driven Skyraider was the USAF's only dedicated close air support aircraft. It was slow, vulnerable to ground fire, and relatively lightly armed.
The Lockheed AH-56 Cheyenne appeared to offer the possibility of handing much of the tactical air-to-ground role to the U.S. Army.
An A-10A of pre-glass cockpit design