Navy to make final flight of single-seat F/A-18C combat jet as old planes give way to two-seat Super Hornet

OCEANA NAS, Va. – The U.S. Navy will celebrate the last flight of the single-seat legacy F/A-18C Hornet jet strike fighter by an operational Navy squadron on 1 Feb at Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach, Va. WKTR TV reports. Continue reading original article

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24 Jan. 2019 -- The F/A-18C Hornet, known as the “legacy” Hornet, is a twin-engine, supersonic, all-weather, carrier-capable, multi-role combat jet, designed as a fighter and attack bomber aircraft.

It also serves as the original F/A-18 design that later led to the F/A-18 Super Hornets, widely in use today.

The F/A-18C Hornets, which are single-seat jets, have been flying with Navy squadrons for 35 years and the Blue Blasters of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 34 are the last remaining deployable F/A-18C Hornet squadron.

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John Keller, chief editor
Military & Aerospace Electronics

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