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Wall of Honor Level: Air and Space Sponsor
Honored by:
James Phillip Buckner (1926-1957) was an experimental test pilot.
- Chance Vought Aircraft, Grand Prairie, TX: 18TH Pilot to fly F8U-1 Crusader; Lead Pilot, In-Flight Refueling System Development
- Naval Test Pilot Training School, Patuxent River, MD, 23rd Class, 3rd in class
- VX-3, Atlantic City, NJ: First Canted Deck Trials, Mirror Landing System, F7U Cutlass In-Flight Refueling
- VF-83, Oceana, VA: F9F Panther, F7U Cutlass, USS Coral Sea - Six months without wave-off
- USAF Primary Flight Training School, Greenville, MS, Instructor
- VF-133, San Diego, CA: F8F Bearcat, USS Princeton
- Naval Flight School, Pensacola: 1947 Graduate, Commissioned Ensign
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