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402d Maintenance Wing

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Country
  
United States

Type
  
Maintenance

Garrison/HQ
  
Robins Air Force Base

Branch
  
Air Force

Size
  
7,000

402d Maintenance Wing

Part of
  
Air Force Materiel Command Warner Robins Air Logistics Center

The 402d Maintenance Wing (402 MXW) is an inactive wing of the United States Air Force last based at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia.

Contents

As a maintenance wing it provided depot maintenance, engineering support, and software development to major weapon systems (F-15 Eagle, C-5 Galaxy, C-130 Hercules, C-17 Globemaster III and Special Operations Forces aircraft).

Lineage

  • Constituted as the 402d Air Depot on 30 March 1943
    • Activated on 15 April 1943 Redesignated 402d Base Air Depot on 17 July 1944 Inactivated on 24 November 1945
  • Disbanded on 8 October 1948
  • Reconstituted and redesignated 402d Maintenance Wing on 31 January 2005
    • Activated on 4 March 2005 Inactivated on 1 October 2012

    Assignments

  • Eighth Air Force (later United States Strategic Air Forces, United States Air Forces Europe), 15 April 1943 - 24 November 1945
  • Warner Robins Air Logistics Center (later Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex), 4 March 2005 (attached to Air Force Sustainment Center after 17 July 2012)
  • Air Force Sustainment Center, 1 October 2012 – present

    • Components

  • 402d Aircraft Maintenance Group, 4 March 2005 - 1 October 2012 (attached to Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex after 17 July 2012)
  • 402d Commodities Maintenance Group, 4 March 2005 - 1 October 2012 (attached to Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex after 17 July 2012)
  • 402d Electronics Maintenance Group, 4 March 2005 - 1 October 2012 (attached to Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex after 17 July 2012)
  • 402d Maintenance Support Group, 4 March 2005 - 1 October 2012 (attached to Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex after 17 July 2012)
  • 402d Software Maintenance Group, 4 March 2005 - 1 October 2012 (attached to Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex after 17 July 2012)

    • Stations

  • RAF Warton (Station 582), England, 15 April 1943 - 24 November 1945
  • Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, 4 March 2005 - 1 October 2012

    • References

    402d Maintenance Wing Wikipedia
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