RCAF Station Grostenquin | |||||||||||
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 Sabre Mk 5 of No. 416 Squadron at Grostenquin, 1953 | |||||||||||
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| Airport type | Military training facility (Polygone) | ||||||||||
| Owner | Government of Canada 1952–1964 Government of France (1964–present) | ||||||||||
| Operator | RCAF (1952–1964) French Air Force (1979–present) | ||||||||||
| Location | Grostenquin, France | ||||||||||
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RCAF Station Grostenquin, also known as 2 (Fighter) Wing or 2 Wing, was a Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) station located five km north of the town of Grostenquin in the Moselle department, Lorraine, northeastern France. It was one of four RCAF wings, consisting of three fighter squadrons each, established in Europe in the early 1950s at the beginning of the Cold War. The other three wings were located at RCAF Station Marville (1 Wing) in France, and RCAF Station Zweibrücken (3 Wing) and RCAF Station Baden-Soellingen (4 Wing) in the former West Germany.
These wings were components of the RCAF's No. 1 Air Division, part of the Fourth Allied Tactical Air Force (4 ATAF). They functioned as Canada's western European air defence commitment to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).