F-19 is the designation for a hypothetical US fighter aircraft that has
never been officially acknowledged, and has engendered much speculation
that it might refer to a type of aircraft whose existence is still
classified.
Since the unification of the numbering system in
1962, U.S. fighters have been designated by consecutive numbers,
beginning with the F-1 Fury. F-13 was never assigned to a fighter due to
triskaidekaphobia, though the designation had previously been used for a
reconnaissance version of the B-29. After the F/A-18 Hornet, the next
announced aircraft was the YF-20 Tigershark. The USAF proposed the F-19
designation for the fighter, but Northrop requested the "F-20" instead.
The USAF finally approved the F-20 designation in 1982.[ The truth
behind this jump in numbers is Northrop pressed the designation "YF-20"
as they wanted an even number, in order to stand out from the Soviet
odd-numbered designations. Despite this, the designations YF-17 and
YF-23 were not skipped (although YF-20, YF-17 and YF-23 all were
prototypes and did not enter production phase).[2]
The United
States received the first Lockheed F-117 stealth fighter in 1982. During
the decade many news articles discussed what they called the "F-19".
The Testor Corporation produced a F-19 scale model. The company had
decades of experience in producing highly detailed models that pilots
and aerospace engineers purchased, and used its sources in the United
States military and defense contractors. The CBS Evening News with Dan
Rather and other media discussed the model after its January 1986
introduction; when the real stealth aircraft crashed in California in
July 1986, news stories used the model to depict it. Representative
Ron Wyden asked the chairman of Lockheed Corporation why an aircraft
that Congressmen could not see was sold as model aircraft. The publicity
helped to make the model the best-selling model aircraft of all
time,[4] but it did not really resemble the F-117, which no doubt
pleased those working with the real, secret aircraft.[3] The F-117
designation was publicly revealed with the actual aircraft in November
1988.
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