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    Airframe Family: Boeing F-18E/F Super Hornet / F-18G Growler
    Latest Model:F/A-18E-53-MC Lot 22 Super Hornet
    Last Military Serial:165666 USN
    Construction Number:1517/E020
    Compressed ID:Boeing F/A-18E-53-MC Lot 22 sn 1656...
    Latest Owner or Location:Strike Fighter Squadron 146, (VFA-146), NAS Lemoore, CA

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F/A-18E-53-MC Lot 22.

    Circa 1997

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 165666.

    From By September 2008 to After January 2012

    Transferred to Strike Fighter Squadron 106 (VFA-106), NAS Oceana, VA.
    Operated with markings: AD-114

    17 May 2010


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Cedar Rapids, IA

    By April 2018

    Transferred to Strike Fighter Squadron 146, (VFA-146), NAS Lemoore, CA.
    Operated with markings: NH-302

    20 August 2022


    Photographer: Mike Fuller
    Notes: at Gary IN/GYY, returning from the Chicago Air and Water Show

    4 April 2025


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: BuNo 165666 as Blue Angels number 3 at Sun n Fun 2025, Lakeland, FL
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