Albuquerque Air Defense Sector

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Albuquerque Air Defense Sector
Air Defense Command
Garrison/HQKirtland Air Force Base
Map of Albuquerque ADS

The Albuquerque Air Defense Sector (AADS) is an inactive

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);[1] it replaced the 34th Air Division (Defense), inactivated on the same date.[2] 34th Air Division commander Colonel Lewis W. Stocking took command of the sector, leading it until September.[3][4]

The mission of the AADS was to provide air defense for

769th, which operated radar stations in New Mexico and Texas.[9][10][11]

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.[12] On 1 November 1960 the Albuquerque ADS was inactivated[1] without gaining operational status when ADC ended command and control operations at Kirtland,[13] part of a reorganization of Air Defense Command against the new ballistic missile threat.[14]

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,[6][8] along with all of the Aircraft Control and Warning Squadrons.[9][10][11] The 260 AADS headquarters personnel were also moved to Oklahoma City.[14] The 93d Fighter-Interceptor Squadron had been inactivated on 8 July as its North American F-86 Sabre fighters were phased out.[7]

Lineage

  • Established as Albuquerque Air Defense Sector on 1 January 1960
Inactivated on 1 November 1960[1]

Assignments

  • 33d Air Division, 1 January 1960 – 1 November 1960[1]

Stations

Components

Interceptor squadrons

  • 58th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron
Walker AFB, New Mexico, 1 January – 15 September 1960[6]
  • 93d Fighter-Interceptor Squadron
Kirtland AFB, New Mexico, 1 January – 8 July 1960[7]
Webb AFB, Texas, 1 January – 15 September 1960[8]

Radar squadrons

See also

  • List of USAF Aerospace Defense Command General Surveillance Radar Stations
  • Aerospace Defense Command Fighter Squadrons

References

Citations

  1. ^ a b c d e Cornett & Johnson 1980, p. 57.
  2. ^ Cornett & Johnson 1980, p. 32.
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  4. ^ "Brigadier General Lewis W. Stocking". United States Air Force. May 1964. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  5. ^ Cornett & Johnson 1980, p. 31.
  6. ^ a b c Maurer 1982, pp. 230–231.
  7. ^ a b c Maurer 1982, pp. 312–313.
  8. ^ a b c Maurer 1982, pp. 408–409.
  9. ^ a b c d e f g Cornett & Johnson 1980, p. 99.
  10. ^ a b c d Cornett & Johnson 1980, p. 100.
  11. ^ a b c d Cornett & Johnson 1980, p. 101.
  12. ^ "Information for Kirtland AFB Perm, NM". Air Defense Radar Veterans' Association. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  13. ^ Morgan, Mark. "Kirtland AFB ADC History". Air Defense Radar Veterans' Association. Retrieved 15 May 2018.
  14. ^ a b "AF to Deactivate [sic] Albuquerque Air Defense Unit". Albuquerque Journal. 27 August 1960. pp. A1, A8 – via Newspapers.com.

Bibliography

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