Volume 8 Number 1 Spring 2000 - Sabre Pilots Association
Volume 8 Number 1 Spring 2000 - Sabre Pilots Association
Volume 8 Number 1 Spring 2000 - Sabre Pilots Association
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1st LT. Henry Head, 56th Fighter Interceptor Squadron,<br />
Wright-Patterson AFB, September 1957. (credit - Henry<br />
Head)<br />
A 56th FIS F-86I) on the ramp at Selfridge AFB, Michigan<br />
in 1954. The 56th FIS converted from F-86Fs to F-86Ds<br />
in February 1953. (credit - Brian Baker)<br />
An F-861) assigned to the 56th FIS during early 1955,<br />
when the squadron was under the control of 575th Air<br />
Defense Group. (credit - Marty lsham Collection)<br />
Black and yellowed checked tails of 56th FIS F-86Ds on<br />
the ramp at Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio in 1956. On 18<br />
August 1955, under Project ARROW, the 56th FIS number<br />
was moved from Selfridge AFB to Wright-Patterson<br />
AFB. While at Wright-Patterson, the 56th FIS was under<br />
control of the 58th Air Division (Air Defense). (credit -<br />
Henry Head)<br />
An F-104A assigned to the 56th FIS at Wright-Patterson AFB in 1960, is armed with a pair of AIM-9B Sidewinder air-toair<br />
missiles. The 56th FIS was deactivated on 1 March 1960. (credit - Larry Davis Collection)