The Pearl Harbor Aviation Museum (PHAM) on Ford Island in Honolulu, Hawaii, is offering a very rare socially-distanced public opportunity on February 10 to 12, 2021 to watch the reassembly of their ...
The remaining Legacy Hornets will be handed over to Navy Reserve and Marine Corps. On Oct. 2, 2019 the last US Navy F/A-18C Hornet performed its official final active duty flight at Naval Air Station ...
As we already reported, the Blue Angels, the U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Team, flew their final formation flight with the “Legacy” F/A-18C/D Hornet on Nov. 4, 2020. After flying the F/A-18C ...
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. – A major chapter in naval aviation history came to a close last week with the final active-duty flight of the Navy’s last F/A-18C Hornet. The F/A-18C Hornet, aircraft number 300, ...
VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. (WAVY) — The U.S. Navy on Friday will be celebrating the last flight of a fighter jet that’s been used for more than three decades. Known as the “legacy” Hornet, U.S. Navy ...
The Navy's last F/A-18C Hornet, aircraft number 300, completed its last active-duty flight on Wednesday. Both the F/A-18A and F/A-18C Hornet variants have been replaced by the updated F/A-18E/F Super ...
NORFOLK, Va. — Friday marks the end of an era at Naval Air Station Oceana. The U.S. Navy is celebrating the last flight of the "legacy" F/A-18C Hornet by an operational Navy Squadron. The single-seat ...
The Navy’s fleet of Super Hornet fighter jets introduced in the late 1990s are aging more poorly than the preceding fleet of F-18 Hornets, according to a Congressional Budget Office report released ...
The US Navy’s (USN's) last Boeing F/A-18C Hornet made its final active-duty flight at NAS Oceana in Virginia Beach, Virginia on 2 October. The US Navy’s (USN's) last Boeing F/A-18C Hornet made its ...
F/A-18C/Ds of the same age, the Super Hornet fleet has had lower availability rates. For example, Super Hornet availability at age 10 was about 18 percentage points lower than F/A-18C/D availability ...
The U.S. Navy's final F/A-18C Hornet has officially retired from active duty. The service announced this month that its last twin-engine, multirole C model made its final flight at Naval Air Station ...
As Canada’s CF-18 fleet enters an unexpected fourth decade of service, the details of a nearly $1 billion upgrade package are settled. Credit: Department of National Defense With operators in Europe, ...