How the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet Became the Navy’s Ultimate Workhorse The McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet has been the mainstay of tactical U.S. naval aviation since its debut in 1984.

The U.S. Navy’s F/A-18 Super Hornet recently refueled Italian ... four Italian Lockheed Martin F-35B Lighting II and four McDonnell Douglas AV-8B+ Harrier II carrier-based fighters.

The civilian-contracted adversary fleet in the U.S. will gain a considerable boost with the delivery of highly-capable legacy Hornets from Australia.

As a result, Northrop introduced the F-20 Tigershark in 1982, an aircraft designed to be modern, but not quite as ...

Before 1962, the Phantom was known by two different names but a change in naming conventions saw it designated the F-4.

Any deal involving the F/A-18 Hornets will still need Washington’s approval, but that may be little more than a formality. Selling “previously-owned” cars is big business in the United ...

In March 2024, the Navy secured a deal that would acquire 17 Block III F/A-18 Super Hornets from Boeing for a grand total $1.1 billion. This purchase will give the Navy 12 F/A-18F and five F/A-18E ...

Boeing may be interested in manufacturing the F/A-18 Super Hornet in India. With competition from both foreign and other U.S. companies, can the tried and tested Super Hornet stay in the game?

including the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet, the de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter and the Boeing 777. His own aircraft was a brown-and-yellow-striped Piper PA-28 Cherokee, tail number N15319 ...

After decades of astonishing spectators on the ground, the Blue Angels’ legacy F/A-18 Hornet fighter jets made their final flight on Wednesday against a gorgeous sunset in the skies above ...

The number of operational IRIAF F-14s dwindled further in 1990s. But while the US Navy upgraded its fleet to the more capable F-14D Super Tomcat and eventually to the F/A-18 Super Hornet ...