K. I. Sawyer Air Force Base is a decommissioned United States Air Force installation in Marquette County, Michigan, south of Marquette. Near the center of Michigan's Upper Peninsula, the base operated
Convair F-106 Delta Darts of the 87th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron on the flight line at K. I. Sawyer AFB in 1976
F-101 of the 62d Fighter-Interceptor Squadron on Alert during the 1960s
F-106A (59–0094) of the 87th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron in flight in the early 1980s. Note the Tactical Air Command emblem on the tail, replacing the squadron emblem.
A Boeing B-52H (SN 60-0017), the type assigned to the 410th Bomb Wing at K. I. Sawyer AFB
The United States Air Force's 410th Air Expeditionary Wing is a provisional United States Air Force unit assigned to Air Combat Command It may be activated or inactivated at any time.
K. I. Sawyer Air Force Base
…Aerial Targets Squadron. The Strategic Air Command (SAC) became a tenant organization at K. I. Sawyer AFB on 1 August 1958 with the organization of the 4042d Strategic Wing. The 4042d SW was a B-52H Stratofortress dispersal wing, a part of SAC's plan to disperse its big bombers over a larger number of bases, thus making…
F-16 Fighting Falcons from the 410th Air Expeditionary Wing taxi in after a long reconnaissance mission at an airbase in Jordan
Formation of A-20 Havocs of the 410th Bombardment Group
410th Bomb Wing B-52H Stratofortress
A pararescue jumper with the 410th Air Expeditionary Wing jumps from a C-130 into Afghanistan. (USAF photo by SSgt. Jeremy T. Lock)