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Retired. Primary user. United States Navy. Number built. 519. The McDonnell F3H Demon is a subsonic swept-wing carrier-based jet fighter aircraft designed and produced by the American manufacturer McDonnell Aircraft Corporation. It was the first swept wing jet fighter and the only single-engined carrier-based fighter the company produced. [ 1]
Footnotes / references. [ 1][ 2] McDonnell Douglas Corporation was a major American aerospace manufacturing corporation and defense contractor, formed by the merger of McDonnell Aircraft and the Douglas Aircraft Company in 1967. Between then and its own merger with Boeing in 1997, it produced well-known commercial and military aircraft, such as ...
Sanford N. McDonnell. The McDonnell Aircraft Corporation was an American aerospace manufacturer based in St. Louis, Missouri. The company was founded on July 6, 1939, by James Smith McDonnell, and was best known for its military fighters, including the F-4 Phantom II, and crewed spacecraft including the Mercury capsule and Gemini capsule.
The 1959 San Diego F3H crash was the crash of a United States Navy McDonnell F3H-2N Demon in San Diego, California, on 4 December 1959.The pilot, Ensign Albert Joseph Hickman from VF-121, chose not to eject from the stricken aircraft, piloting it away from populated areas of Clairemont, including an elementary school, saving "as many as 700 people" on the ground, according to one estimate.
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1947 to 1953. Number built. 895. Developed from. McDonnell FH Phantom. The McDonnell F2H Banshee (company designation McDonnell Model 24) is a single-seat carrier-based jet fighter aircraft designed and produced by the American aircraft manufacturer McDonnell Aircraft. It was an early jet fighter operated by United States Navy and United States ...
The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II[ N 1 ] is an American tandem two-seat, twin-engine, all-weather, long-range supersonic jet interceptor and fighter-bomber originally developed by McDonnell Aircraft for the United States Navy. [ 3 ] Proving highly adaptable, it entered service with the Navy in 1961 [ 4 ] before it was adopted by the United ...
English: A U.S. Navy McDonnell F3H-2 Demon (BuNo 145242) of Fighter Squadron 131 (VF-131) "Nightcappers" in flight. VF-131 was assigned to Carrier Air Group 13 (CVG-13) aboard the aircraft carrier USS Constellation (CVA-64) for her shakedown cruises in the Atlantic Ocean from 7 February to 6 May 1962.