Only Two YF-23 Stealth Fighters Were Ever Built. One Is Honored in an Ohio Museum, the Other Sits Outdoors in California With Its Engines Gone

Only Two YF-23 Stealth Fighters Were Ever Built. One Is Honored in an Ohio Museum, the Other Sits Outdoors in California With Its Engines Gone

Northrop built exactly two YF-23 prototypes for the competition that produced the F-22, and both still exist. I've stood next to each, a month apart. They are the same revolutionary design — and they have led completely different afterlives, one honored indoors, one parked outside with its engines gone.