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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:163435 USN
    Construction Number:0634/C008
    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.

    6 November 1987

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 163435.

    6 November 1987

    Transferred to Strike Figher Squadron 82 (VFA-82), NAS Cecil Field, FL.
    Operated with markings: AB-301

    From Circa August 1990 to Circa March 1991

    Ca.8/90 to Ca. 3/91: Deployed aboard USS America for combat operations in support of Operation Desert Storm.

    From By July 1998 to After December 2004

    Transferred to Strike Fighter Squadron 81 (VFA-81), NAS Oceana, VA.
    Operated with markings: AA-404

    By June 2006

    Transferred to Navy Flight Demonstration Team (Blue Angels), NAS Pensacola, FL.
    Operated with markings: Blue Angels, 6

    2 October 2010


    Photographer: Mike Hill
    Notes: Displaying at 2010 MCAS Miramar Air Show

    By March 2011

    Markings Applied: Blue Angels, 5

    18 June 2011


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Davenport, IA

    18 June 2011


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Davenport, IA

    23 July 2011


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

    By March 2013

    Markings Applied: Blue Angels, 2
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     Military Aircraft Serials of North America by S. Mitchell and A Eastwood
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     Airport Data
    Desert Storm by Jakub Cikhart
    Jet Photos
    Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Terry Fletcher
    Peter Nicholson
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