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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:162435 USMC
    Construction Number:278/A224
    Compressed ID:McDD F/A-18A-15-MC (Lot 7) sn 16243...
    Latest Owner or Location:Patriots Point Naval and Marine Museum (USS Yorktown), Mount Pleasant, Charleston, South Carolina

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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 Marine Corps with BuNo 162435.

    Transferred to VMFA-142.

    Markings Applied: 204, MB

    By September 1997


    Photographer: Unknown

    3 April 2000


    Photographer: Fred Krause
    Notes: Photographed at NAS Fallon, NV.

    27 June 2007

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Marine Corps.

    October 2007

    Placed on display with Patriots Point Naval and Marine Museum (USS Yorktown), Mount Pleasant, Charleston, SC.
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    12 May 2010


    Photographer: Thomas Delvoye

    12 May 2010


    Photographer: Thomas Delvoye

    27 January 2013


    Photographer: Claudia Brodbeck
    Notes: Patriots Point

    January 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Robert Nichols
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