Superior Sabres

摘要

DESIGNED AS A DAY FIGHTER, the North American F-86A arrived in Seoul, Korea, in December 1950. Soviet-built MiG-15s had been giving the slower F-80s a pummeling, but that would soon change; on December 17, swept-wing fighters engaged for the first time, and Lieutenant Colonel Bruce Hinton scored the first aerial victory over a MiG-15. By war's end, Sabres had destroyed almost 800 MiG-15s, at a victory ratio of 10 to 1. The Museum's F-86A was assigned in 1949 to the 4th Fighter-Interceptor Group at Langley Air Force Base, Virginia; most of its combat missions were flown from Kimpo Air Base near Seoul. It is currently on display at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in northern Virginia.