474th TFW, Nellis AFB Skin Pack

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474th TFW, Nellis AFB Skin Pack

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474th TFW Skin Pack

Decals by USAFMTL

Skin by JAT81500

 

Skin 4 pack of the 428th, 429th and 430th TFS. There is a bonus 430th skin in pre deployment colors.

 

This is for the latest F-111A by FC and the Vark Team.

 

Installation

 

Just drop in your into your F-111A folder and fly.

 

Enjoy

Dave

 

On January 20, 1968 the 474th TFW, 474th FMS, and the

 

428th TFS moved without personnel or equipment to Nellis

 

AFB, Nev, and the 474th AEMS and 474th MMS inactivated.

 

The units that moved to Nellis absorbed the resources of

 

an inactivating wing. Gaining the 474th CSG, 474th

 

Tactical Hospital, and 474th Supply Squadron, the 474th

 

Wing became host unit for Nellis. There it acquired the

 

F-Ill equipped 4527th CCTS. On January 20, 1968 the

 

428th TFS organized Detachment 1, which also received F

 

-111 aircraft. This detachment deployed c. March 18 to

 

November 22, 1968 to Southeast Asia. On May 15, 1968 the

 

429th TFS discontinued attachment to another wing and

 

rejoined the 474th Wing without personnel or equipment.

 

A former component, the 430th TFS, became part of the

 

wing on September 15, 1968. Tactical components of the

 

wing received their initial F-ills between November 1968

 

and March 1969 and began training for proficiency in the

 

new weapon system. The 4527th CCTS trained F-111

 

aircrews for the wing and for other USAF units until

 

replaced in October 1969 by the 442d TFTS, which assumed

 

the mission. The 4474th TTS, assigned December 1 to June

 

15, 1970, was sparsely manned and never equipped with F

 

-llls. Upon inactivation of the 474th CSG, 474th

 

Tactical Hospital, and 474th Supply Squadron in February

 

1970, the 474th Wing became a tenant at Nellis AFB. Wing

 

assumed an operationally ready status between January 31

 

and September 8, 1971, and from September 1971 initiated

 

tactical exercises for the maintenance of tactical

 

operational proficiency.

 

Over 1,600 tactical and support personnel of the wing

 

deployed on September 27, 1972 to Takhli RTAFB,

 

Thailand, to participate in combat operations in

 

Southeast Asia. A rear echelon of wing headquarters

 

remained at Nellis to control units not deployed. All F

 

-111As of the 474th carried the tail code NA. From

 

Takhli, the 474th participated in Operation Linebacker

 

II when the United States resumed the large scale

 

bombing of North Vietnam.

 

In early 1973, With the suspension of bombing in North

 

Vietnam and the resumption of peace negotiations,

 

inflight refueling requirements decreased markedly. As a

 

result, in late January 1973 many of the augmentee

 

tankers of the 11th Air Refueling Squadron, which has

 

been rotating aircraft and aircrews from Altus AFB,

 

returned to Oklahoma.

 

The 430th TFS returned to the 474th TFW Nellis on March

 

22, 1973 assuming a replacement training unit mission,

 

while the 428th and 429th were assigned to the newly

 

transferred 347th Tactical Fighter Wing from Mountain

 

Home Air Force Base Idaho on July 30, 1973. On August 6

 

the last F-111 aircraft and crews were transferred to

 

Mountain Home AFB, Idaho, and the 474th Wing absorbed

 

the F-4D aircraft, crews, and resources of the

 

inactivating Tactical Fighter Wing Provisional, 4474th.

 

With the end of hostilities in Southeast Asia, the

 

474th's mission was to train combat-ready force of

 

aircrews and maintained a rapid-reaction capability to

 

execute fighter attacks against enemy forces and

 

facilities in time of crisis. The wing conducted this

 

mission until September 1989, when the wing was

 

inactivated to relieve congestion at Nellis. The F-16s

 

assigned to the wing were transferred to ANG and AFRES

 

squadrons.

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• Submitter
  Dave
• Submitted
  01/30/2009
• Category
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