text: 4 November 1955: Pilot Lt George Millard was killed when his Cutlass went into the cable barrier at the end of the flight deck landing area of . The nosegear malfunctioned and drove a strut into the cockpit which triggered the ejection seat and dislodged the canopy. Millard was launched  forward and hit the tail of a parked A-1 Skyraider and later died of his injuries.
  Aircraft on display
  Seven F7U-3 Cutlass aircraft are known to have survived:
  128451 – Phoenix, Arizona. Prototype F7U-3, fuselage only.  Originally slated as a parts source for 129565, it has been transferred to Al Casby as a possible parts source for his Cutlass 129622.  Prior to its storage at NAS North Island - San Diego, California it was formerly located at the New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology in Socorro, New Mexico.
  129554 – Falcon Field (Arizona).  Ex VA-212. Purchased by Len Berryman from Geiger Field, Spokane, Washington in May 1958 and displayed outside the Berryman War Memorial Park in Bridgeport, Washington from 1958 until 1992. In June 1992 it was sold to Tom Cathcart of Ephrata, Washington. Sold in September 2014, and currently at Falcon Field, Arizona, for further restoration to airworthy condition by F7U historian Al Casby.
  129565 – NAS North Island - San Diego, California. Ex VA-212.  Under final restoration by the USS Midway Museum in San Diego, California, it is now on display.