F_117_Nighthawk
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Aircraft by type |
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F-117 Nighthawk |
| Date |
Air Force |
A'cft | Unit / Serial |
based |
crashed | crew | photo | seat |
| 4th May 1978 |
USAF |
XST-1 |
'Have Blue' 1001 |
Lockheed Test Pilot William M. 'Bill' Park badly injured ejecting |
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| 11th July 1979 |
USAF |
XST-2, | "Have Blue" 1002 | One of its J85 engines caught fire, fluid lines were burned through. Crashed Nellis test range |
Lt.Col. Norman Kenneth
"Ken" Dyson ejected safely |
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4th August 1992 9:20 PM |
USAF |
F-117A |
"801" 85-801 |
49th FW/416th FS Holloman Air Force Base | Uncommanded roll and caught fire. crashed at shortly after taking off for a night mission about 8 miles northeast of the base Alamogordo, NM |
Capt. John B. Mills ejected sustained a cut on the chin and a few bruises |
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| 14th September 1997 about 3 p.m |
USAF |
F-117A |
"793" 81-793 |
Wing broke away due to missing wing stiffener. Crashed into A house about 100 feet from the water of the Chesapeake Bay, near the Glenn Martin State Airport near Middle River, Md |
Maj. Bryan "B.K." Knight ejected |
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| 27th March 1999 |
USAF |
F-117A "Vega 31" |
"806" 82-806 |
Assigned to the 8th FS Aviano Air Base, Italy Deployed from the 49th Fighter Wing at Holloman AFB, N.M |
First combat loss of a F-117A during NATO Operation Allied Force. Shot down by Russian made SA-3 over the former Republic of Yugoslavia |
Lt Col
Dale Zelko ejected safely into enemy territory and was rescued. |
pic | ACES II |