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1987/11 - Establishment Of Peace Carvin Detachment
Peace Carvin Detachment
F-16 Fighting Falcon
1987
The RSAF established Peace Carvin Detachment in the US for F-16A/B training, ending in 1990.
The Peace Carvin detachment was established in 1987, when the RSAF acquired an initial batch of eight F-16A/B Fighting Falcons. The first detachment was set up at Luke Air Force Base in Arizona. It ended in 1990 when all eight F-16A/Bs were flown back to Singapore and were assigned to 140 Squadron.

The RSAF established the Peace Carvin Detachment to help new aircraft become fully operational more quickly.

The detachment also allowed the RSAF to overcome the constraints of limited training airspace and terrain in Singapore.

“When Singapore decided to purchase the F-16A/Bs in 1983...we kept the aircraft in the United States for two years. This detachment in the United States was very beneficial to the pilots and crew. By the time the F-16s reached Singapore in January, they were already operational.”
BG (Ret) Lee Hsien Loong, Minister for Trade and Industry and Second Minister for Defence, 1990