The 63d Fighter Squadron is an active United States Air Force unit, assigned to the 56th Operations Group, at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona. It operates the F-35A aircraft, and conducts advanced fighter training since its reactivation in 2016. When this Squadron was reactivated in 1975, their mission was to train pilots and weapons systems officers for the McDonnell F-4E Phantom II, and they switched to the F-4D in 1978.
63d Fighter Squadron – F-16s on ramp, Luke AFB, Arizona, 2003
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63d Fighter-Interceptor Squadron North American F-86A-5-NA Sabre 49-1223 56th Fighter-Interceptor Group, Selfridge AFB, Michigan, 1950
63d TFTS F-4D-28-MC Phantom 65–0756, 1979
Wurtsmith Air Force Base is a decommissioned United States Air Force base in Iosco County, Michigan. Near Lake Huron, it operated for seventy years, from 1923 until decommissioned in 1993. On January 18, 1994, Wurtsmith was listed as a Superfund site, due to extensive groundwater contamination with heavy metals, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, volatile organic compounds, including trichloroethylene, 1,1-dichloroethane, 1,1,1-trichloroethane, and vinyl chloride. In 2010, Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances contamination was discovered, and as of 2022 remediation is still ongoing.
2006 USGS Airphoto. Note the christmas tree alert staging area at top center.
Oscoda Army Airfield, 1943
