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    Airframe Family: Northrop F-17 Cobra / F-18 Hornet
    Latest Model:F/A-18A- 8-MC (Lot 5) Hornet
    Last Military Serial:161710 USN
    Construction Number:57
    Compressed ID:McDD F/A-18A- 8-MC (Lot 5) sn 16171...
    Latest Owner or Location:Celebrity Row, Davis-Monthan AFB (North Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F/A-18A- 8-MC (Lot 5) by McDonnell Douglas.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 161710 and operated with these markings: AF-311.

    7 June 1994

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 1A001.

    To Celebrity Row, Davis-Monthan AFB (North Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    1 May 2005


    Photographer: RedRipper 24
    Notes: At the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC),Davis-Monthan AFB, Tucson, Arizona

    1 May 2012

    Scrapped.
    By HVF West.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     MASDC II, AMARC, Davis-Monthan AFB, Arizona, 1982-1987 by Fryer and Swann
    Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
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     Terry Fletcher
    Mike Henniger
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