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    Airframe Family: Northrop F-17 Cobra / F-18 Hornet
    Latest Model:YF-18A Hornet
    Last Military Serial:160775 USN
    Construction Number:1/A001
    Compressed ID:McDD YF-18A sn 160775 USN cn 1/A001...
    Latest Owner or Location:United States Naval Museum of Armament and Technology, Ridgecrest, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a YF-18A by McDonnell Douglas.
    Also classified as a F/A-18A-1-MC

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 160775.

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    Loaned to United States Naval Museum of Armament and Technology, Ridgecrest, CA.
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    By 2 August 1983


    Photographer: Unknown

    Circa 1984


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Military Airshow, Whiteman AFB, Knob Noster, MO.

    March 2013


    Photographer: Dick Logan via Fargo Air Museum

    12 March 2024


    Photographer: Chris Wood

    25 January 2025


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the United States Naval Museum of Armament and Technology in Ridgecrest, CA.
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