The 402nd Maintenance Wing, sometimes written as 402d Maintenance Wing, (402 MXW) is an inactive

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of the

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last based at

Robins Air Force Base Robins Air Force Base is a major United States Air Force installation located in Houston County, Georgia, United States. The base is located just east of the city of Warner Robins, south-southeast of Macon and approximately south-southeast o ...

, Georgia. As a maintenance wing it provided depot maintenance,

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support, and

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development to major

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systems ( F-15 Eagle,

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, C-130 Hercules,

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and

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Forces aircraft). From 1943 to 1945, RAF Station Warton, 6.9 miles west of

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, where the 402d Air Depot, later the 402d Base Air Depot, was located, operated as a

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depot and staging point. Thousands of aircraft were processed at Warton on their way to active service in Great Britain, North Africa, the Mediterranean Theater of Operations, and mainland Europe.

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,

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), 15 April 1943 - 24 November 1945 *

Warner Robins Air Logistics Center The Warner Robins Air Logistics Complex (WR-ALC), through about 7,000 employees at Robins Air Force Base, Georgia, provides depot maintenance, engineering support and software development to major weapon systems -15, C-5, C-130, C-17 and Special ...

(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 (inactivated 1 October 2012)

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),Station number in Anderson. Lancashire, 15 April 1943 - 24 November 1945 *

, Georgia, 4 March 2005 - 1 October 2012

References

Notes

Bibliography

External links

Robins AFB Home Page
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