[3][4] The mission of the AADS was to provide air defense for New Mexico, most of Texas, southern Colorado, and the Oklahoma Panhandle.

[9][10][11] The sector operated Manual Air-Defense Control Center (ADCC) (P-41), inherited from the 34th Air Division.

[12] On 1 November 1960 the Albuquerque ADS was inactivated[1] without gaining operational status when ADC ended command and control operations at Kirtland,[13] part of a reorganization of Air Defense Command against the new ballistic missile threat.

[14] The 93d Fighter-Interceptor Squadron had been inactivated on 8 July as its North American F-86 Sabre fighters were phased out.

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