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The 7499th Support Group is an inactive United States Air Force organization. Its last assignment was with the United States Air Forces in Europe, being stationed at Wiesbaden Army Airfield, West Germany. It was inactivated on 30 June 1974. Its mission was resumed by the 7575th Operations Group, which operated from Rhein-Main Air Base, West Germany from 1 July 1977 until its inactivation on 31 March 1991.
7405th Operations Squadron C-130E 62-1828 taxiing at Rhein-Main Air Base, West Germany, 1980
7499th Support Squadron B-17G-85-VE Fortress 44-8889
EC-97G Stratofreighter 52-2688
7406th Support Squadron Boeing RB-50B-55-BO Superfortress 47–157 Wiesbaden AB, West Germany, 1956.
The Martin/General Dynamics RB-57F Canberra is a specialized strategic reconnaissance aircraft developed in the 1960s for the United States Air Force by General Dynamics from the Martin B-57 Canberra tactical bomber, which itself was a license-built version of the English Electric Canberra. It was operationally assigned to the Air Weather Service for weather reconnaissance involving high-altitude atmospheric sampling and radiation detection in support of nuclear test monitoring, but four of the 21 modified aircraft performed solely as strategic reconnaissance platforms in Japan and Germany.
WB-57F Canberra 63-13503 Rivet Slice conversion taxiing at Kirtland. Now flying as NASA 926.
WB-57F 63-13503 assigned to 6091st Reconnaissance Squadron, Yokota AB, Japan.
An RB-57F assigned to the 7407th Combat Support Squadron, Rhein-Main AB, West Germany.