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    Airframe Family: Northrop F-17 Cobra / F-18 Hornet
    Latest Model:F/A-18A-15-MC (Lot 7) Hornet
    Last Military Serial:162436 USN
    Construction Number:279/A225
    Compressed ID:McDD F/A-18A-15-MC (Lot 7) sn 16243...
    Latest Owner or Location:Naval Air Warfare Center-Aircraft Division, NAS Lakenhurst, NJ

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F/A-18A-15-MC (Lot 7) by McDonnell Douglas.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 162436.

    14 November 2003

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    Loaned to Harold F. Pitcairn Wings of Freedom Museum, Willow Grove NAS, Warminster, PA.
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    26 July 2012


    Photographer: Daniel L. Berek
    Notes: This Hornet was built in 1985 and flew until 2003, amassing 675 carrier landings. She was restored in 2003. She is part of a war memorial on the NAS Willow Grove base, but now also part of the growing Wings of Freedom Museum.

    2014

    To Naval Air Warfare Center-Aircraft Division, NAS Lakenhurst, NJ.
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