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Australia has sold 25 F/A-18A/Bs to Canada with first two delivered to RCAF in February 2019. [65] By 2021, 12 (A)F/A-18A and 6 (A)F/A-18B (and an additional 7 disassembled (A)F/A-18 for spare parts) were sold to the RCAF. [66] At Wings Over Illawarra 2021, the Hornet performed its last public flying display before retirement.
All of the F/A-18A and Bs were scheduled to be retired by 2022. [111] The RAAF's Hornet sustainability planning was designed to allow the type to be retained in service for longer if the F-35 program experienced further delays. [38] No. 3 Squadron was the first Hornet unit to be reequipped, and ceased operating the type in December 2017.
F/A-18A Hornet F/A-18B Hornet: United States Australia: Single-seat multi-role fighter-attack aircraft: 1985–2021: 75 aircraft. The Hornets were operated by No. 2 Operational Conversion Unit RAAF, No. 3 Squadron RAAF, No. 75 Squadron RAAF and No. 77 Squadron RAAF. See McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet in Australian service: Boeing F/A-18F Super ...
Ukraine is studying the possibility of acquiring some or all of Australia’s 46 remaining FA-18A and two-seat F/A-18B Hornet jets. Is that a good idea? Ukraine May Buy Hand-Me-Down F/A-18 Hornets ...
No. 77 Squadron began converting to McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet multi-role fighters in June 1987. It supplied a detachment of four aircraft to the American base on Diego Garcia in 2001–02, supporting the war in Afghanistan , and deployed to the Middle East as part of the war against the Islamic State in 2015–17.
The Super Hornet is an enlarged redesign of the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet.The wing and tail configuration trace its origin to a Northrop prototype aircraft, the P-530, c. 1965, which began as a rework of the lightweight Northrop F-5E (with a larger wing, twin tail fins and a distinctive leading edge root extension, or LERX). [4]
The Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet strike fighter production line will shut down in two years. The Super Hornet, developed in the 1990s as a jumbo version of the original F/A-18C Hornet, is the U.S ...
The McDonnell Douglas CF-18 Hornet (official military designation CF-188) is a Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) variant of the American McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet fighter aircraft. In 1980, the F/A-18 was selected as the winner of the New Fighter Aircraft Project competition to replace CF-104 Starfighter , CF-101 Voodoo and the CF-116 ...