The 495th Fighter Group is an active duty fighter group in the United States Air Force. It is assigned to Fifteenth Air Force of Air Combat Command and stationed at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, with additional units at multiple active Air Force, Air Force Reserve Command and Air National Guard installations across the United States.
An F-16 Fighting Falcon pilot of the 495th Fighter Group prepares to take off from Bagram Airfield
1943: Three P-38 Lightnings, AAF Ser. No. 42-68184 and two comrades, of the 495th Fighter Training Group in flight.
Homestead Air Reserve Base, previously known as Homestead Air Force Base is located in Miami–Dade County, Florida to the northeast of the city of Homestead. It is home to the 482nd Fighter Wing of the Air Force Reserve Command's Tenth Air Force, as well as the headquarters of Special Operations Command South.
An F-16C Fighting Falcon assigned to the 482nd Fighter Wing takes off from Homestead ARB.
Aerial photo of Homestead Army Airfield – 1943
Homestead AFB after Hurricane Andrew severely damaged the base on 27 August 1992
A 307th TFTS F-4D taking off