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On Oct. 2, 2019, the U.S. Navy marked the end of an era when last F/A-18C performed its official final active-duty flight at Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia, escorted by three F/A-18F Super Hornets. Originally designed for the U.S. Air Force, the F/A-18 served for 36 years. The fighter was …

Article Source: AVGEEKERY.COM On July 8th 1991, a US Navy Grumman E-2C Hawk-eye early warning and control aircraft was shot down by a US Navy McDonnell Douglas F/A-18C Hornet approximately 40 miles southeast of Cyprus in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. The Hornet utilized its M61A1 20 millimeter Vulcan cannon to …