RCAF Station Grostenquin

RCAF Station Grostenquin
Sabre Mk 5 of No. 416 Squadron at Grostenquin, 1953
Summary
Airport typeMilitary training facility (Polygone)
OwnerGovernment of Canada 1952–1964
Government of France (1964–present)
OperatorRCAF (1952–1964)
French Air Force (1979–present)
LocationGrostenquin, France
Map
Runways
Direction Length Surface
ft m
15/33 2,830 asphalt/concrete

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).