List of McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle operators
Appearance
The McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle has been in service with the United States Air Force since 1976. Israel, Japan, Saudi Arabia and other nations also operate the aircraft. The units it has been assigned to, and the bases it has been stationed are listed below.
Operators
- Israeli Air Force has operated F-15s since 1977, received under Peace Fox I, II and III. These aircraft are currently organized into two F-15A/B squadrons and one F-15C/D squadron. The first 25 F-15A/Bs were early USAF production airframes. The second batch was temporarily embargoed as a result of the 1982 Lebanon War.[1] The IAF has 43 F-15A/B/C/D (20 F-15A, 6 F-15B, 11 F-15C, and 6 F-15D) aircraft in service as of January 2011.[2] It also operates 25 F-15I "Ra'am" aircraft as of January 2011.[2]
- 106 Squadron ("The Head of the Spear Squadron") Tel Nof Airbase (F-15A/B/C/D)
- 133 Squadron ("The Twin-Tail Knights Squadron") Tel Nof Airbase (F-15A/B/C/D)
- 69 Squadron – Hatzerim AFB (F-15I)
- Japan Air Self-Defense Force operates Mitsubishi F-15J and F-15DJ fighters. It had 157 F-15Js and 45 F-15DJs in use as of November 2008.[3][4]
- 2nd Air Wing Chitose Air Base
- 6th Air Wing Komatsu Air Base
- 5th Air Wing Nyutabaru Air Base
- 9th Air Wing Naha Air Base
- Air Development and Test Wing
- 23rd Flying Training Squadron
- Republic of Korea Air Force has ordered a combined 61 F-15K "Slam Eagle" with two lost in an accident.[5] It has 59 F-15Ks in use.[2]
- 11th Fighter Wing (제11전투비행단), based at Daegu
- 102nd Fighter Squadron
- 122nd Fighter Squadron
- 110th Fighter Squadron
- 11th Fighter Wing (제11전투비행단), based at Daegu
Both the 102nd Fighter Squadron and the 122nd Fighter Squadron operate the batch-1 of F-15Ks(integrated with F110-GE-129A) while the 110th Fighter Squadron operating the batch-2 of F-15Ks(integrated with F100-P&W-229EPE).
- Royal Saudi Air Force has operated 4 squadrons of F-15C/D (55/19) since 1981, received under Peace Sun. They are based at Dhahran, Khamis Mushayt and Taif air bases. A stipulation in the Camp David Peace Agreement limited the number of Saudi F-15 to 60, holding surplus air frames in Luke AFB for RSAF pilot training. This limitation was later abandoned. The RSAF has 70 F-15C/D (49 F-15C and 21 F-15D)[2] fighters along with 69 F-15S fighters in operation as of January 2011.[2]
- No. 2 Wing RSAF – King Abdullah Aziz Air Base
- No. 5 Squadron RSAF (F-15C/D)
- No. 34 Squadron RSAF (F-15C/D)
- No. 3 Wing RSAF – King Abdullah Aziz Air Base
- No. 13 Squadron RSAF (F-15C/D)
- No. 92 Squadron RSAF (F-15S)
- No. 5 Wing RSAF – King Khalid Air Base
- No. 6 Squadron RSAF (F-15S)
- No. 55 Squadron RSAF (F-15S)
- No. 7 Wing RSAF – King Faisal Air Base
- No. 2 Squadron RSAF (F-15C/D)
- No. 2 Wing RSAF – King Abdullah Aziz Air Base
- Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) operates 40 F-15SG
- NASA operated two F-15As on trials work.
- United States Air Force operated 254 F-15C/D aircraft (222 in the active Air Force and 32 in the ANG) as of September 2010.[8] Bold type below indicates Air Force units (Active, ANG and AFRC) operating F-15s in January 2012. In addition the USAF also operates 219 F-15E variants as of September 2016.
- Active units[9]
- Air Combat Command
- 1st Fighter Wing – Langley AFB, Virginia
- 4th Fighter Wing – Seymour Johnson AFB, North Carolina
- 333d Fighter Squadron (F-15E)
- 334th Fighter Squadron (F-15E)
- 335th Fighter Squadron (F-15E)
- 336th Fighter Squadron (F-15E)
- 33d Fighter Wing – Eglin AFB, Florida
- 49th Fighter Wing – Holloman AFB, New Mexico
- 53d Wing – Eglin Air Force Base, Florida
- 85th Test and Evaluation Squadron (F-15C, F-15E)
- 422d Test and Evaluation Squadron, Nellis AFB, Nevada (F-15C, F-15E)
- 57th Wing – Nellis AFB, Nevada
- 366th Fighter Wing – Mountain Home AFB, Idaho (F-15C/D units inactivated; F-15E units retained)
- 389th Fighter Squadron (F-15E)
- 390th Fighter Squadron
- 391st Fighter Squadron (F-15E)
- 428th Fighter Squadron mixed USAF/RSAF unit for training RSAF personnel on the new F-15SG (Peace Carvin V)
- 379th Air Expeditionary Wing (F-15E)
- 455th Air Expeditionary Wing – Bagram AB, Afghanistan (F-15E)
- Air Education and Training Command
- 56th Fighter Wing – Kingsley Field Air National Guard Base, Oregon
- 550th Fighter Squadron (F-15E, inactivated 1991, Reactivated 1994-1995. Reactivated 2017 flying the F-15C/D)
- 325th Fighter Wing – Tyndall AFB, Florida
- 405th Tactical Training Wing / 58th Fighter Wing / 56th Fighter Wing – Luke AFB, Arizona
- 426th Tactical Fighter Training Squadron (former F-15E, inactivated 1990)
- 461st Fighter Squadron (F-15E, inactivated 1994)
- 555th Fighter Squadron (F-15E, Transferred to Aviano AB, Italy (F-16C), 1994)
- 56th Fighter Wing – Kingsley Field Air National Guard Base, Oregon
- Pacific Air Forces
- United States Air Forces in Europe
- 32d Fighter Group – Soesterberg AB, Netherlands (former operator, base closed, group inactivated)
- 36th Fighter Wing – Bitburg AB, Germany
- 22d Fighter Squadron (Transferred to Spangdalem AB (F-16CJ), 1994)
- 53d Fighter Squadron (Transferred to Spangdalem AB, 1994)
- 525th Tactical Fighter Squadron (F-15C/D, Inactivated 1992)
- 48th Fighter Wing – RAF Lakenheath, UK
- 492d Fighter Squadron (F-15E)
- 493d Fighter Squadron
- 494th Fighter Squadron (F-15E)
- 52d Fighter Wing – Spangdahlem AB, Germany
- 53d Fighter Squadron (Transferred from Bitburg AB, 1994, Inactivated 1999)
- Air Defense – Tactical Air Command (ADTAC)
- Air Force Material Command
- 46th Test Wing / 96th Test Wing – Eglin AFB
- 40th Flight Test Squadron (F-15E)
- 412th Test Wing – Edwards AFB, California
- 415th Flight Test Squadron (F-15E)
- 419th Flight Test Squadron (F-15C/D, F-15E)
- 46th Test Wing / 96th Test Wing – Eglin AFB
- Air Combat Command
- Air Force Reserve
- Air Force Reserve Command
- 414th Fighter Group – Seymour Johnson AFB, North Carolina
- 307th Fighter Squadron (F-15E)
- 414th Fighter Group – Seymour Johnson AFB, North Carolina
- Air Force Reserve Command
- Air National Guard
- Florida Air National Guard
- California Air National Guard
- Hawaii Air National Guard
- Louisiana Air National Guard
- Massachusetts Air National Guard
- Missouri Air National Guard
- 131st Fighter Wing – Lambert-St. Louis International Airport
- 110th Fighter Squadron (Converted to B-2 associate unit and moved to Whiteman AFB in 2008)
- 131st Fighter Wing – Lambert-St. Louis International Airport
- Montana Air National Guard
- 120th Fighter Wing – Great Falls International Airport/Great Falls ANGB - last F-15s departed in October 2013.[11]
- Oregon Air National Guard
References
- Citations
- ^ Gething 1983
- ^ a b c d e "World Military Aircraft Inventory". 2011 Aerospace. Aviation Week and Space Technology, January 2011.
- ^ "Directory: World Air Forces". Flight International, 11–17 November 2008.
- ^ "Japan Air Self-Defence Force, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, Japan Ground Self-Defense Force". Scramble.nl. Archived from the original on 3 April 2007. Retrieved 3 December 2011.
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- ^ "Inauguration of the RSAF's First Local F-15SG Squadron." MINDEF press release, 5 April 2010. Retrieved: 20 April 2010.
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- Jenkins, Dennis R. McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle, Supreme Heavy-Weight Fighter. Hinckley, UK: Midland Publishing, 1998. ISBN 1-85780-081-8.
- Lambert, Mark, ed. Jane's All the World's Aircraft 1993–94. Alexandria, Virginia: Jane's Information Group Inc., 1993. ISBN 0-7106-1066-1.
- Spick, Mike, ed. The Great Book of Modern Warplanes. St. Paul Minnesota: MBI, 2000. ISBN 0-7603-0893-4.