Albuquerque Air Defense Sector
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The Albuquerque Air Defense Sector (AADS) is an inactive United States Air Force organization. It was briefly active between 1 January and 1 November 1960, assigned to the 33d Air Division at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico. The sector was responsible for the air defense of New Mexico and most of Texas, and was inactivated as a result of a shift towards ballistic missile defense.
History
The Albuquerque Air Defense Sector was activated on 1 January 1960 as a manual sector, lacking a SAGE Computer, at Kirtland Air Force Base (AFB), assigned to the simultaneously redesignated 33rd Air Division (SAGE);Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". it replaced the 34th Air Division (Defense), inactivated on the same date.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". 34th Air Division commander Colonel Lewis W. Stocking took command of the sector, leading it until September.[1][2]
The mission of the AADS was to provide air defense for New Mexico, most of Texas, southern Colorado, and the Oklahoma Panhandle.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The organization provided command and control over three fighter-interceptor squadrons: the 58th at Walker AFB,Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". the 93d at Kirtland,Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". and the 331st at Webb AFB;Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". as well as nine aircraft control and warning squadrons: the 683d, 685th, 686th, 687th, 688th, 697th, 732d, 768th, and 769th, which operated radar stations in New Mexico and Texas.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
The sector operated Manual Air-Defense Control Center (ADCC) (P-41), inherited from the 34th Air Division. A SAGE Direction Center was planned but never built.[3] On 1 November 1960 the Albuquerque ADS was inactivatedScript error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". without gaining operational status when ADC ended command and control operations at Kirtland,[4] part of a reorganization of Air Defense Command against the new ballistic missile threat.[5]
The organizations under AADS were inactivated or transferred to the Oklahoma City Air Defense Sector before its inactivation, on 15 September. The 58th and 331st Fighter-Interceptor Squadrons were transferred to the Oklahoma City Air Defense Sector,Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". along with all of the Aircraft Control and Warning Squadrons.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters". The 260 AADS headquarters personnel were also moved to Oklahoma City.[5] The 93d Fighter-Interceptor Squadron had been inactivated on 8 July as its North American F-86 Sabre fighters were phased out.Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Lineage
- Established as Albuquerque Air Defense Sector on 1 January 1960
- Inactivated on 1 November 1960Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Assignments
- 33d Air Division, 1 January 1960 – 1 November 1960Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Stations
- Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, 1 January 1960 – 1 November 1960Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Components
Interceptor squadrons
- Walker AFB, New Mexico, 1 January – 15 September 1960Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, 1 January – 8 July 1960Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
- Webb AFB, Texas, 1 January – 15 September 1960Script error: No such module "Footnotes".Script error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".
Radar squadrons
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See also
- List of USAF Aerospace Defense Command General Surveillance Radar Stations
- Aerospace Defense Command Fighter Squadrons
References
Citations
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Bibliography
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