Model

Name

Type

First Flight

 F8U-2NE (F-8E)

 Crusader

 Fighter

 1961

 

 

 

 

 

 

2242_05

The F-8E Crusader from the SunDowners squadron VF-111, #150896, was lost in combat to a Mig Fighter on 05 September 1966. VF-111 was disestablished in March 1995.

"Omar" was the SunDowners mascot and is the figure on the tip of the vertical stabilizer.



Information supplied by Henk van der Lugt,
the VF-111 SunDowners Historian