327th Aircraft Sustainment Wing
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 B-1 Sustainment Squadron personnel in March 2007 | |
| Active | 1942–1944, 1955–1966, 2005–2010 |
| Country |  United States |
| Branch |  United States Air Force |
| Type | Aircraft Maintenance |
| Part of | Air Force Materiel Command Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center |
| Motto(s) | Ne Defecit Animus Latin (Courage Does Not Fail Me) (1942–1958) Intercipere Recognoscere Destuere Latin (Intercept, Identify, Destroy) (1958–1966) |
| Insignia | |
| 327th Aircraft Sustainment Wing emblem |  |
| Patch with 327th Fighter Group (Air Defense) emblem (Approved 12 May 1958)[1] |  |
| 327th Fighter Group emblem (Approved 27 February 1943)[1] |  |
The 327th Aircraft Sustainment Wing is an inactive wing of the United States Air Force last based at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma. It was last assigned to Air Force Materiel Command's Oklahoma City Air Logistics Center.
The wing was first activated in 1942 as the 327th Fighter Group. It initially flew the Curtiss P-40 Warhawk in the air defense role, but later acted as an operational and replacement training unit on Republic P-47 Thunderbolts until it was disbanded in a major 1944 reorganization of the Army Air Forces.
In 1955, as part of Air Defense Command's Project Arrow, which was aimed at reviving fighter units that had served during World War II, the group was reactivated at Paine Field, where it replaced the 520th Air Defense Group. It provided air defense for the Pacific northwest with North American F-86 Sabres and Convair F-102 Delta Daggers until it was inactivated in 1966.
The group was upgraded to wing size in 2005 and activated at Tinker Air Force Base when Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) replaced its traditional directorate organizations with wings, groups and squadrons. It controlled logistic support systems for various large aircraft until 2010, when it was inactivated as AFMC returned to its previous organizational structure.