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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:162431 USMC
    Construction Number:273/A219
    Compressed ID:McDD F/A-18A-15-MC (Lot 7) sn 16243...
    Latest Owner or Location:VMFA-115, MCAS Beaufort, NC

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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 162431.

    Transferred to VMFA-531.

    By July 1990

    Markings Applied: 01, VMFA-531, EC, 01

    July 1990


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At MCAS El Toro CA. Open House.

    By 2008

    To Weapons Survivability Lab, NCC China Lake (North), Ridgecrest, CA.
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    By 2008

    Markings Applied: 303, NH

    By January 2014

    Transferred to VMFA-314, MCAS Miramar, CA.

    By January 2014

    Markings Applied: 13, VMFA-314, VW, 13

    By October 2014

    Transferred to VMFA-115, MCAS Beaufort, NC.

    By October 2014

    Markings Applied: 206, VMFA-115, VE, 206, Silver Eagles

    22 July 2015


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: on approach to Nellis AFB NV during Red Flag
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    US Air Forces Directory (Mach III Publishing) by Ken Wardle
    Internet Sources
     Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    Individual Contributors
     Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols
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