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Date: | Monday 26 January 1953 |
Time: | |
Type: | North American F-86E-10 Sabre |
Owner/operator: | United States Air Force (USAF) |
Registration: | 51-2796 |
MSN: | |
Fatalities: | Fatalities: 1 / Occupants: 1 |
Aircraft damage: | Destroyed |
Location: | "MiG Alley", NW part of North Korea -
North Korea
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Phase: | Combat |
Nature: | Military |
Departure airport: | Seoul/Kimpo (RKSS) |
Destination airport: | |
Confidence Rating: | Information is only available from news, social media or unofficial sources |
Narrative:F-86E-10 51-2796 flown by 2th Lt Bill J. Stauffer(4th FIW, 336th FIS).
Hit in combat with six MiGs, his aircraft was observed to have crashed into a small hill in an inverted position. No bail out observed. Bill J. Stauffer declared as MiA. Victory credited to one MiG of the 913th IAP(32th IAD) flown by Alexei I. Shliapin.
Sources:
http://www.dtic.mil/dpmo/korea/reports/air/ L.Krylov, Y.Tepsurkaev, I Seidov, A.German, Gordon and Rigmant,B.Cull, D.Newton, W.Thompson,X.Zhang,Korwall,V.Zabelin,M.Mikhin.
Revision history:
Date/time | Contributor | Updates |
26-Apr-2011 01:52 |
Daniel Nole |
Updated [Aircraft type, Location, Country, Phase, Departure airport, Source, Narrative] |
26-Aug-2011 09:18 |
Uli Elch |
Updated [Operator, Location, Departure airport, Narrative] |