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    Airframe Family: Northrop F-17 Cobra / F-18 Hornet
    Latest Model:CF-188 Hornet
    Last Military Serial:188743 CAF
    Construction Number:307
    Compressed ID:McDD CF-188 sn 188743 CAF cn 307
    Latest Owner or Location:CFB Cold Lake, AB

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a CF-188 by McDonnell Douglas.
    Equivalent to F-18A-16-MC when delivered.

    31 May 1985

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Canadian Armed Forces with s/n 188743.

    Circa 1985

    Transferred to CFB Cold Lake, AB.

    20 September 1986


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: CF-18A Hornet of 439 Squadron Canadian Armed Forces on display at the 1986 RAF Leuchars Airshow

    From Unknown to Circa 1989

    Transferred to CFB Baden, Germany.

    From 1990 to 1991

    Transferred to Desert Cat Detachment, Doha, Qatar.

    1991

    Transferred to No. 439 Squadron, 1st Canadian Air Division, CFB Solingen, Germany.

    February 1995

    Transferred to No. 410 Squadron, Cold Lake.

    Received ECP avionics update.

    April 2006

    Transferred to No. 416 Squadron, CFB Cold Lake, AB.

    May 2007

    Transferred to No. 409 (TF) Squadron, Cold Lake, AB.

    October 2009

    Transferred to Training Detachment, McCarran Airport, Las Vegas, NV.

    2010

    Transferred to No. 409 Squadron, Cold Lake, AB.

    October 2014

    Transferred to No. 409 (TF) Squadron, Cold Lake, AB.

    October 2014

    Transferred to Kuwait.
    Dispatched to Kuwait for operations against ISIS.

    April 2016

    Transferred to CFB Cold Lake, AB.

    17 July 2022


    Photographer: Bill Jex
    Notes: RCAF 4 Wing Cold Lake, Alberta air show
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