RCAF Station Grostenquin

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.

They functioned as Canada's western European air defence commitment to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO).

2 Wing's three squadrons flew from Canada between September 28 and October 11, 1952 during Operation Leapfrog II.

[1] All twelve Air Division squadrons flew the Canadair Sabre day fighter.

30 Air Materiel Base (AMB) in Langar, U.K.[7] Families of service personnel were mainly accommodated in married quarters or PMQs consisting of 443 apartments at nearby Saint Avold.

The runway, taxiways and tarmac remain visible from aerial photos (as late as 2010) but markings have changed since the RCAF left in 1964.

RCAF Sky Lancers aerobatic team, 1955
Sabres of No. 421 Squadron at Grostenquin, 1957
No. 430 Squadron Sabres, 1960
Married quarters under construction in Saint Avold