312th Tactical Fighter Wing

312th Aeronautical Systems Wing
474th Tactical Fighter Group Commander's aircraft
Active	1954-1959; 2005-2010
Country	United States
Branch	United States Air Force
Role	Systems development
Part of	Air Force Materiel Command
Decorations	Air Force Outstanding Unit Award
Commanders
Notable commanders	Col. Donald Blakeslee
Insignia
312th Aeronautical Systems Wing emblem (approved 9 March 2009)
312th Tactical Fighter Wing emblem (approved 30 November 1958)

The 312th Aeronautical Systems Wing is an inactive United States Air Force unit. It was last active in June 2010 at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, where it managed attack and fighter aircraft systems development as part of the Aeronautical Systems Center.

The wing was first activated in 1954 as the 312th Fighter-Bomber Wing at Clovis Air Force Base, New Mexico. Until 1957, it had one fighter-bomber group assigned to it, and another one attached. From that time until it was inactivated in 1959, it was one of two North American F-100 Super Sabre wings assigned to the 832d Air Division.

The wing was first activated as the 312th Fighter-Bomber Wing at Clovis Air Force Base, New Mexico in the fall of 1954. A number of wings had been activated at Clovis and trained there since it reopened in 1951. The 312th was assigned to Ninth Air Force upon activation.

The 312th was initially equipped with a hodgepodge of obsolete Republic F-84G Thunderjets and some more modern North American F-86H Sabres. On 8 November 1954, the 474th Fighter-Bomber Group moved to Clovis from Taegu Air Base, South Korea after fighting in the Korean War. The 474th joined 312th Fighter-Bomber Group as a second flying component of the wing. the 474th group was to be a training organization. Beginning in September 1955, the wing began training in the use of battlefield tactical nuclear weapons. It began to receive new North American F-100D Super Sabres in December 1956. From April 1956 to October 1957 the wing rotated tactical squadrons to either Châteauroux-Déols Air Base or Etain-Rouvres Air Base in France, for six month deployments to United States Air Forces Europe.