List of Combat Losses of United States Military Aircraft Since The Vietnam War - 1999 (Operation Allied Force)

1999 (Operation Allied Force)

• March 27 - An F-117 Nighthawk (Serial Number : 82-0806) stealth ground-attack jet was shot down by a Serbian SA-3 surface-to-air missile during the Kosovo War; the pilot (Lieutenant Colonel Dale Zelko) survived and was subsequently rescued. As of June 2007, this is the only publicly acknowledged loss of an American military stealth aircraft during combat.

• May 1 – An F-16C Fighting Falcon (Serial Number : 88-0550) was shot down by a Yugoslav SA-3 SAM. The aircraft crashes near Šabac, in a rural area of Serbia; the pilot (Lieutenant Colonel David Goldfein) survived and was subsequently rescued.