Ground floor inside the main exhibition building of the Aeronautical Museum.

Display includes fragments from the wreckage of a US F-117A Night Hawk from 1999. During Operation Allied Force, airstrikes against the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia in 1999, on the night of 27-28 March, an F-117A aircraft (82-0806) deployed from 49th Fighter Wing at Holloman Air Force Base, New Mexico, and based at Aviano Airbase in Italy, was shot down while returning from a strike against targets in Belgrade. Yugoslav 3rd Battalion, 250th Air Defense Missile Brigade in the village of Buanovci near Ruma engaged the aircraft with several missiles from the S-125 NEVA missile system (NATO designation - SA-3 GOA).  About six hours after the crash, an Air Force Special Operations (AFSOC) Special Tactics team onboard an MH-53 Pave Low helicopter from 55th Special Operations Squadron in Joint Task Force NOBLE ANVIL recovered the pilot, Lt Col Darrell Patrick (Dale) Zelko (callsign VEGA 31) and returned him to Aviano.

This shootdown marked the first ever and apparently only downing of a stealth aircraft in combat. Several weeks later, the same Yugoslav unit also shot down an F-16C fighter piloted by Lt Col David L. Goldfein, the commander of the 555th Fighter Squadron. Goldfein managed to eject and was rescued by the same combat search and rescue task force. Fragments include one F-117A wingtip on open display, as well as additional items in an adjacent glass showcase:

- F-117A canopy with markings indicating pilot as Capt Ken Wiz Dwelle

- F-117A Ejection seat model MDD ACES II, with pilot inflatable vest, emergency signal flares, and radio AN/PRC-90

- Equipment identified as Electro-optical navigation assembly with unit to find and identify targets - FLIR / DLIR sensor (Forward looking infrared / Downward looking infrared). Both sensor turrets contain a boresighted laser for illuminating the target for laser-guided weapons. These sensors are backed up by a highly accurate internal navigation system (INS) that uses an electrostatic suspended gyro.

- Missile section with Russian-language markings, identified as: Second stage of surface-to-air missile S/125 NEVA which shot down F-117A on 27th March 1999 near village Budjanovci.

Source of information: www.muzejvazduhoplovstva.mod.gov.rs, wikipedia.org, www.dafhistory.af.mil/Portals/16/documents/Airmen-at-War/Whitcomb-CombatSearchRescueSerbia1999.pdf?ver=2016-08-22-131409-757, https://home.snafu.de/veith/Texte/Stealth.htm

Source of photos: www.nytimes.com, greydynamics.com, theaviationist.com, googlemap