Established in January 1960 assuming control of former ADC Central Air Defense Force units with a mission to provide air defense of Kentucky, Tennessee and Arkansas along with sections of southern Missouri; Illinois; Indiana and Ohio; western West Virginia; Virginia; North and South Carolina; northern Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, and small sections of northeast Texas and eastern Oklahoma.

Operated a Manual Direction Center. The day-to-day operations of the command was to train and maintain tactical flying units flying jet interceptor aircraft (F-94 Starfire; F-102 Delta Dagger; F-106 Delta Dart) in a state of readiness with training missions and series of exercises with SAC and other units simulating interceptions of incoming enemy aircraft.

The sector was eliminated on 1 January 1962 as part of ADC reorganization and consolidation, the command's units being reassigned to several (20th, 34th, 32d) Air Divisions.

Lineage edit

• Established as Kansas City Air Defense Sector on 1 January 1960

Inactivated on 1 January 1962

Assignments edit

• 33d Air Division, 1 January 1960
• 29th Air Division, 1 July 1961 – 1 January 1962

Stations edit

• Richards-Gebaur AFB, Missouri, 1 January 1960 – 1 January 1962

Components edit

Wing edit

• 328th Fighter Wing (Air Defense)

Richards-Gebaur AFB, Missouri, 1 February-1 July 1961

Groups edit

• 53d Fighter Group (Air Defense)

Sioux City Airport, Iowa, 1 January-1 April 1960

• 328th Fighter Group (Air Defense)

Richards-Gebaur AFB, Missouri, 1 January 1960 – 1 July 1961

Radar squadrons edit

• List of USAF Aerospace Defense Command General Surveillance Radar Stations
• Aerospace Defense Command Fighter Squadrons

  This article incorporates public domain material from the Air Force Historical Research Agency

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• Maurer, Maurer (1983). Air Force Combat Units Of World War II. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-89201-092-4.
• Ravenstein, Charles A. (1984). Air Force Combat Wings Lineage and Honors Histories 1947-1977. Maxwell AFB, Alabama: Office of Air Force History. ISBN 0-912799-12-9.
• Radomes.org Kansas City Air Defense Sector