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    Airframe Family: Northrop F-17 Cobra / F-18 Hornet
    Latest Model:F/A-18C-28-MC (Lot 11) Hornet
    Last Military Serial:163765 USN
    Construction Number:845/C122
    Compressed ID:McDD F/A-18C-28-MC (Lot 11) sn 1637...
    Latest Owner or Location:Blue Angels Demonstration Team, NAS Pensacola, FL

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F/A-18C-28-MC (Lot 11) by McDonnell Douglas.

    13 August 1989

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 163765.

    By August 1990

    Transferred to Strike Fighter Squadron 113 (VFA-113), NAS Lemoore, CA.
    Operated with markings: NK-305

    From Circa September 1990 to Circa March 1991

    Deployed aboard USS Independence for missions in support of Operation Desert Storm.

    By 1993

    Transferred to Strike Fighter Squadron 195 (VFA-195), NAS Lemoore, CA.

    Circa October 1998

    Transferred to Strike Fighter Squadron 147 (VFA-147), NAS Lemoore, CA.

    By June 2011

    Transferred to Blue Angels Demonstration Team, NAS Pensacola, FL.
    Operated with markings: Blue Angels, 4

    18 June 2011


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: Blue Angel #4 at Davenport, IA

    From By 23 July 2011 to After 12 November 2011

    Markings Applied: Blue Angels, 6

    23 July 2011


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

    From By 16 February 2012 to After 3 March 2012

    Markings Applied: Blue Angels, 3

    By 15 April 2012

    Markings Applied: Blue Angels, 6

    From By 28 April 2012 to After February 2013

    Markings Applied: Blue Angels, 3

    From By 13 December 2013 to After 21 March 2014

    Markings Applied: Blue Angels, 5

    By 12 April 2014

    Markings Applied: Blue Angels, 3

    By 24 April 2014

    Markings Applied: Blue Angels, 2

    By 26 April 2014

    Markings Applied: Blue Angels, 5

    26 April 2014


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At NAS Fort Worth JRB, TX Open House, as Blue Angels #5.

    By 17 May 2014

    Markings Applied: Blue Angels, 2
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    Airport Data
    Desert Storm by Jakub Cikhart
    F-18 Fandom
    Jet Photos
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    Mike Henniger
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