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    Airframe Family: Northrop F-17 Cobra / F-18 Hornet
    Latest Model:F/A-18C-23-MC (Lot 10) Hornet
    Last Military Serial:163442 USN
    Construction Number:645/C013
    Compressed ID:McDD F/A-18C-23-MC (Lot 10) sn 1634...
    Latest Owner or Location:Navy Flight Demonstration Team (Blue Angels), NAS Pensacola, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F/A-18C-23-MC (Lot 10) by McDonnell Douglas.

    9 December 1987

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 163442.

    By January 1989

    Transferred to Strike Fighter Squadron 82 (VFA-82), NAS Cecil Field, FL.
    Operated with markings: AB-303

    From Circa August 1990 to Circa March 1991

    Deployed aboard USS America for combat operations in support of Operation Desert Storm.

    From By January 1998 to After 2000

    Transferred to Strike Fighter Squadron 81 (VFA-81), NAS Oceana, VA.
    Operated with markings: AA-412

    By June 2002

    Transferred to Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 251 (VMFA-251), MCAS Beaufort, SC.
    Operated with markings: 201

    By 2011

    Transferred to Navy Flight Demonstration Team (Blue Angels), NAS Pensacola, FL.
    Operated with markings: Blue Angels, 5

    By March 2011

    Markings Applied: Blue Angels, 3

    18 June 2011


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Davenport, IA

    18 June 2011


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Davenport, IA

    By July 2011

    Markings Applied: Blue Angels, 1

    23 July 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Thunder Over Michigan Air Show at Ypsilanti, Michigan.

    By November 2011

    Markings Applied: Blue Angels, 5

    By December 2013

    Markings Applied: Blue Angels, 3

    By October 2014

    Markings Applied: Blue Angels, 4

    By May 2015

    Markings Applied: Blue Angels, 1

    By July 2015

    Markings Applied: Blue Angels, 6

    By April 2016

    Markings Applied: Blue Angels, 4

    21 April 2016


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At NAS Fort Worth, TX. as Blue Angel #4.
    Credits
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     Military Aircraft Serials of North America by S. Mitchell and A Eastwood
    Internet Sources
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    Airport Data
    Desert Storm by Jakub Cikhart
    F-18 Fandom
    Jet Photos
    Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
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