File:General Dynamics F-111B on the ground c1968.jpg

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Description A U.S. Navy General Dynamics/Grumman F-111B (BuNo 151974). This aircraft was used for limited carrier suitability tests aboard the aircraft carrier USS Coral Sea (CVA-43) in July 1968. It was the only F-111B to perform carrier operations after completing arrestor proving tests at the Naval Air Test Center Patuxent River, Maryland (USA), in February 1968. It crash landed at NAS Point Mugu, California (USA), on 11 October 1968 and was subsequently scrapped.
Date circa 1968
date QS:P,+1968-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1480,Q5727902
Source U.S. Navy National Museum of Naval Aviation photo No. 2011.003.299.007
Author U.S. Navy

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