10 June 1969: The U.S. Air Force donated the first North American Aviation X-15, serial number 56-6670, to the Smithsonian Institution for display at the National Air and Space Museum. The first of three X-15A hypersonic research rocketplanes built by North American for the Air Force and the National Advisory Committee (NACA, the predecessor of NASA), 56-6670 made the first glide flight and
Major Amos O. Fox had enlisted in the USAF and had previously served in Korea. On July 23, 1967 he began his Vietnam tour with the 615th Tactical Fighter Squadron, 35th Tactical Fighter Wing, stationed at Phan Rang Air Base.
On April 23, 1968, MAJ Fox was on approach to Phan Rang in a USAF North American F-100D Super Sabre (#55-2923) when he reportedly flew into some clouds and hit a ridgeline. Fox was killed in the crash. After the incident, the approach to the airbase was redrawn.(1)
Amos is buried at All Saints Episcopal Church Cemetery in Pawleys Island, SC.
Source (1): [Taken from coffeltdatabase.org and information provided by Richard Buickerood (October 2019)] (2) More info from HonorStates.org
