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    Airframe Family: Northrop F-17 Cobra / F-18 Hornet
    Latest Model:CF-188B Hornet
    Last Military Serial:188922 CAF
    Construction Number:421
    Compressed ID:McDD CF-188B sn 188922 CAF cn 421
    Latest Owner or Location:Aerospace and Telecommunications Engineering Support Squadron, CFB Trenton, ON

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    Dates

    Event

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

    10 April 1985

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Canadian Armed Forces with s/n 188922.

    From Circa 1985 to Circa 1990

    Transferred to CFB Cold Lake, AB.

    26 June 1989


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: Photographed at Wattisham.

    1991

    Transferred to 1st Canadian Air Division, CFB Solingen, Germany.

    21 September 1991


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: CF-18B Hornet of 439 Squadron 1st Canadian Air Division at CFB Solingen on display at the 1991 RAF Leuchars Airshow.

    February 1995

    Transferred to No. 410 Squadron, CFB Cold Lake, AB.

    June 2001

    Transferred to Aerospace Engineering Test Establishment, Cold Lake, AB.

    By 2009

    Assigned to CFB Trenton, ON for storage.

    2010

    Transferred to Aerospace and Telecommunications Engineering Support Squadron, CFB Trenton, ON.
    At this point survived as a fuselage only being used as a spares source.
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