Fighter wing/Legends

The term fighter wing was an organizational unit and the largest unit of starfighters fielded by most space navies, including the Alliance to Restore the Republic/New Republic Defense Force and the Imperial Navy.

Imperial Navy
In the navy of the Galactic Empire, the fighter wing usually referred to all of the starfighters carried aboard an Imperial-class Star Destroyer, which amounted to six squadrons or seventy-two starfighters and bombers. The composition of squadrons within an Imperial fighter wing varied by era. Ground support wings attached to the Imperial Army were smaller, consisting of ten flights of four fighters. Three flights formed a TIE Bomber squadron, six flights formed two TIE/ln starfighter squadrons, and one flight flew TIE/fc starfighters to act as spotters.

Rebel Alliance/New Republic
Within the Rebel Alliance, and later the New Republic, a fighter wing consisted of three squadrons of starfighters and also typically referred to the number of squadrons that were stationed aboard capital ships such as Mon Calamari Cruisers. Squadrons assigned to the same wing that operated independently of a warship almost always flew the same types of craft, for example Defender Wing commanded by General Horton Salm.

Appearances

 * X-wing: Rogue Squadron
 * Specter of the Past