Registration / Serial: | N339SS |
Aircraft Original Type: | Scaled Composites 339 SpaceShipTwo |
Aircraft Generic Type: | Scaled Composites 339 SpaceShipTwo |
Aircraft Version: | Scaled Composites 339 SpaceShipTwo |
C/n (msn): | 001 |
Operator Titles: | Virgin Galactic |
City / Airport: | Mojave - Air and Space Port (KMHV / MHV)Map |
Region / Country: | California, United States |
Photo Date: | 17 November 2010 |
Photo by: | Gerhard PlomitzerContact |
Photo ID: | 191768Submit Correction |
View count: | 1385 |
After its third successful unpowered flight SpaceShipTwo is being towed back to the hangar. Unfortunately on October 31, 2014, the VSS Enterprise, a SpaceShipTwo experimental spaceflight test vehicle operated by Virgin Galactic, suffered a catastrophic in-flight breakup during a test flight and crashed in the Mojave Desert near Cantil, California. One pilot was killed and the other seriously injured.
Registration / Serial: | N339SS |
Aircraft Version: | Scaled Composites 339 SpaceShipTwo |
C/n (msn): | 001 |
Operator Titles: | Virgin Galactic |
City / Airport: | Mojave - Air and Space Port (KMHV / MHV)Map | Region / Country: | California, United States |
Photo Date: | 17 November 2010 |
Photo by: | Gerhard PlomitzerContact |
Registration / Serial: | N339SS |
Aircraft Original Type: | Scaled Composites 339 SpaceShipTwo |
Aircraft Generic Type: | Scaled Composites 339 SpaceShipTwo |
Aircraft Version: | Scaled Composites 339 SpaceShipTwo |
C/n (msn): | 001 |
Operator Titles: | Virgin Galactic |
City / Airport: | Mojave - Air and Space Port (KMHV / MHV)Map |
Region / Country: | California, United States |
Photo Date: | 17 November 2010 |
Photo by: | Gerhard PlomitzerContact |
Photo ID: | 191768Submit Correction |
View count: | 1385 |
After its third successful unpowered flight SpaceShipTwo is being towed back to the hangar. Unfortunately on October 31, 2014, the VSS Enterprise, a SpaceShipTwo experimental spaceflight test vehicle operated by Virgin Galactic, suffered a catastrophic in-flight breakup during a test flight and crashed in the Mojave Desert near Cantil, California. One pilot was killed and the other seriously injured.
Registration / Serial: | N339SS |
Aircraft Version: | Scaled Composites 339 SpaceShipTwo |
C/n (msn): | 001 |
Operator Titles: | Virgin Galactic |
City / Airport: | Mojave - Air and Space Port (KMHV / MHV)Map | Region / Country: | California, United States |
Photo Date: | 17 November 2010 |
Photo by: | Gerhard PlomitzerContact |