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    Airframe Family: Northrop F-17 Cobra / F-18 Hornet
    Latest Model:F/A-18C-36-MC (Lot 14) Hornet
    Last Military Serial:164666 USN
    Construction Number:1096/C286
    Compressed ID:McDD F/A-18C-36-MC (Lot 14) sn 1646...
    Latest Owner or Location:VFA-15, USS Theodore Roosevelt

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F/A-18C-36-MC (Lot 14) by McDonnell Douglas.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 164666.

    By 5 November 1995

    Transferred to VFA-15, USS Theodore Roosevelt.

    By 5 November 1995

    Markings Applied: 306, VFA-15, AJ, 06

    5 November 1995


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at NAS Cecil Field Airshow

    14 September 1997

    Destroyed in a crash.
    Crashed during normal training operation 75 miles NE of Raysut, Oman into the wall of so-called Star Wars Canyon. Pilot killed.
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