List of Royal Australian Air Force wings explained

This is a list of the wings organised by the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF).

Numbered wings

• No. 1 Wing RAAF^[1]
• No. 21 Wing RAAF^[2]
• No. 22 Wing RAAF^[3]
• No. 24 Wing RAAF
• No. 34 Wing RAAF
• No. 41 Wing RAAF
• No. 42 Wing RAAF
• No. 44 Wing RAAF
• No. 61 Wing RAAF
• No. 62 Wing RAAF
• No. 71 Wing RAAF
• No. 72 Wing RAAF
• No. 73 Wing RAAF
• No. 75 Wing RAAF
• No. 76 Wing RAAF
• No. 77 Wing RAAF
• No. 78 Wing RAAF
• No. 79 Wing RAAF
• No. 80 Wing RAAF
• No. 81 Wing RAAF
• No. 82 Wing RAAF
• No. 83 Wing RAAF
• No. 84 Wing RAAF
• No. 85 Wing RAAF
• No. 86 Wing RAAF
• No. 90 Wing RAAF^[4]
• No. 91 Wing RAAF^[5]
• No. 92 Wing RAAF
• No. 95 Wing RAAF^[6]
• No. 96 Wing RAAF
• No. 97 Wing RAAF^[7]
• No. 301 Air Base Wing RAAF
• No. 302 Air Base Wing RAAF
• No. 303 Air Base Wing RAAF
• No. 304 Air Base Wing RAAF
• No. 305 Air Base Wing RAAF
• No. 306 Air Base Wing RAAF
• No. 307 Air Base Wing RAAF
• No. 321 Air Base Wing RAAF
• No. 322 Air Base Wing RAAF
• No. 323 Air Base Wing RAAF
• No. 324 Air Base Wing RAAF (contingency unit, not permanently established)^[8]
• No. 325 Air Base Wing RAAF (contingency unit, not permanently established))
• No. 326 Air Base Wing RAAF (contingency unit, not permanently established))
• No. 327 Air Base Wing RAAF (contingency unit, not permanently established))
• No. 395 Expeditionary Combat Support Wing RAAF^[9]
• No. 396 Expeditionary Combat Support Wing RAAF
• No. 402 Wing RAAF
• No. 481 Wing RAAF
• No. 501 Wing RAAF^[10]
• No. 503 Wing RAAF

Named wings

• Airfield Defence Wing RAAF^[11]
• Air System Development and Test Wing RAAF
• Air Training Wing RAAF
• Ground Training Wing RAAF
• Health Services Wing RAAF
• Information Warfare Directorate RAAF^[12]
• INTERFET Combined Air Wing^[13] /No. 96 Combined Air Wing RAAF^[14]
• Operational Support Wing RAAF
• Reserve Training Wing RAAF
• Search and Rescue Wing RAAF^[15]

See also

• Structure of the Royal Australian Air Force

References

• Book: Air Power Development Centre. Air Force - Serving Australia's Interests. 2015. Royal Australian Air Force. Canberra.
• Book: Australian War Memorial. Squadrons, Formations & Units of the Royal Australian Air Force and their Deployment. 1995. Unpublished monograph held by the AWM Research Centre. Canberra.
• Book: Breen, Bob. Struggling for Self Reliance. Four Case Studies of Australian Regional Force Projection in the Late 1980s and the 1990s. ANU E Press. Canberra. 2008. Canberra Papers on Strategy and Defence No. 171. 978-1-921536-09-0. 13 April 2013. https://web.archive.org/web/20121116125154/http://epress.anu.edu.au/titles/strategic-and-defence-studies-centre-sdsc-2/sfsr_citation. 16 November 2012. dead.
• Book: Bullard. Steven. In their Time of Need: Australia's Overseas Emergency Relief Operations 1918-2006. 2017. Cambridge University Press. Cambridge. Official History of Australian Peacekeeping, Humanitarian and Post-Cold War Operations. 978-1-107-02634-6.
• Book: Gillison, Douglas . Royal Australian Air Force 1939–1942 . Australia in the War of 1939–1945. Series 3 – Air . 1962 . Australian War Memorial . Canberra . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110607140547/http://www.awm.gov.au/histories/second_world_war/volume.asp?levelID=67912 . 7 June 2011 .
• Book: Jane's World Air Forces. 2000. Jane's Information Group. 0-7106-1293-1. Jackson, Paul. Coulsdon.
• Book: Lax . Mark . Taking the Lead : The Royal Australian Air Force 1972-1996. . 2020 . Big Sky Publishing . Newport, New South Wales . 978-1-922265-95-1.
• Book: O'Brien, Graham. Always There: A History of Air Force Combat Support. 2009. Air Power Development Centre. Tuggeranong, ACT. 9781920800451.
• Book: Odgers, George . George Odgers

. George Odgers . Air War Against Japan 1943–1945 . Australia in the War of 1939–1945. Series 3 – Air . 1968 . reprint . Australian War Memorial . Canberra.

• Book: Stephens, Alan. The Royal Australian Air Force: A History. Oxford University Press. South Melbourne. 2006. Paperback. 978-0-19-555541-7.
• Book: Wilson, David . 2003 . Warden to Tanager: RAAF Operations in East Timor . Maryborough. Banner Books . 1-875593-26-8.

Notes and References

1. Odgers (1968), p. 508
2. Gillison (1962), p. 759
3. Australian War Memorial (1995), p. 1
4. Stephens (2006), p. 244
5. Web site: 91 Composite Wing RAAF. Australian Military Units. Australian War Memorial. 11 February 2010.
6. Air Power Development Centre (2015), p. 45
7. Bullard (2017), p. 257
8. O'Brien (2009). pp. 93–94
9. Web site: Air Force Wings. Royal Australian Air Force. 3 December 2010.
10. Jackson (2000), p. 19
11. News: Unconventional enemy to defeat. Wellfare. John. 11 August 2005. Air Force. Department of Defence. 11 February 2010.
12. Web site: About Us: Air Warfare Centre . Royal Australian Air Force . 2016 . 16 August 2016 . Information Warfare Directorate – centralises the AF’s tactical information warfare elements and provides the wider RAAF with an integrated and tailorable operational support capability drawn from across the Intelligence, Electronic Warfare and Information Operations domains..
13. Wilson (2003), p. 11
14. Breen (2008), p. 139
15. Australian War Memorial (1995), p. 84