High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! No. 82 Wing is the Royal Australian Air Force`s strike and reconnaissance wing. It is headquartered at RAAF Base Amberley, Queensland, and operates the F/A-18F Super Hornet multirole fighter and Pilatus PC-9 forward air control aircraft. The wing was formed in August 1944, flying B-24 Liberator heavy bombers in the South West Pacific theatre of World War II. After the war it re-equipped with Avro Lincolns and, from 1953, English Electric Canberra jets. Both saw action in the Malayan Emergency; the Canberras were also deployed in the Vietnam War from 1967 to 1971. Between 1970 and 1973, as a stop-gap pending delivery of the long-delayed General Dynamics F-111C swing-wing bomber, the wing flew leased F-4E Phantoms. It then operated the F-111C for the next 37 years through numerous upgrades, augmented in the mid-1990s by ex-USAF G models, before retiring the type in 2010.