Description

497th FIS Patch

Fly with the 497th FIS on this beautifully recreated patch. You’ll love the detail that honors this unit.

• 4.5 inch
• Embroidered
• US Veteran Owned Business
• Reproduction

Air defense of West coast, 1953–1955.

Air Defense of Southwest Europe, 1958–1964. In the early 1960s Headquarters, United States Air Force (USAF) implemented Project Clearwater. Clearwater was designed to return overseas Convair F-102 Delta Dagger squadrons stationed overseas to the United States to reduce “gold flow” (adverse balance of payments). This resulted in the 497th being reduced to a paper unit and its planes dispersed to Air Defense Command interceptor squadrons in the US.[3] Although it had originally been intended to inactivate the unit, it was instead transferred to Tactical Air Command as a paper unit.