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2nd Tactical Wing

military unit

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 1, 2025
Entity authorityQ15138151 ↗
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The 2nd Tactical Wing (Dutch: 2 Tactische Wing, French: 2 Wing Tactique) is a wing in the Belgian Air Force of the Belgian Armed Forces based at Florennes air base in the Southern French speaking part of Belgium near the (small) city of Dinant. It comprises the 1st Squadron and the 350th Squadron of the Air Force.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current 57-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1947. For this dossier, Tactical, Wing and military is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “2nd Tactical Wing” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.