Navy F18C Hornet Jet Fighter Wood Model Airplane

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Pilots and collectors of fighter planes and military aircraft shouldn't miss the opportunity to get a F-18C Hornet display model plane.

Model Airplane: F/A-18C Hornet Air Superiority Jet Fighter aircraft
Wingspan: 11.75"
Fuselage Length: 17.5"
Scale: 1/38
Material: mahogany wood
Manufacturer: McDonnell Douglas
Model Airplane Factory offers you this elegant Navy F18 Hornet model display jet plane made from finest kiln-dried mahogany wood. After passing through several stages of sanding and priming, our talented artists paint and detail the Hornet F-18 jet with historically correct markings of the Hornet F18. The process starts from carving the fuselage and the intakes on the fuselage sides to the Navy F-18 Hornet cruciform tail design, to the assembly and final polishing of the Hornet F18 model display airplane jet. The Hornet F18 wood jet airplane will be painted according to the specific color scheme of the Navy F-18 Hornet for their historical significance and authenticity. The rich color paint scheme and markings of the Hornet F-18 are cautiously painted to the assembled Hornet F-18 jet model aircraft. This Hornet F-18 wooden plane made of mahogany comes with a metal stand and wooden base.


The F/A-18 first saw combat action in April 1986, when Hornets from Coral Sea flew SEAD missions against Libyan air defenses during Operation Prairie Fire and an attack on Benghazi as part of Operation El Dorado Canyon. Two US Navy F/A-18s were lost in the first hours of the Gulf War in 1990. One of the pilots, Lt Robert Dwayer was killed although the cause of his loss is unclear. The other, Lt Cdr M. Scott Speicher (VFA-81) remains missing in action. There are conflicting government accounts of Speicher's downing. One source, an unclassified summary of a 2001 CIA report, states that Speicher's aircraft was destroyed by an air-to-air missile fired by an Iraqi fighter, and that he may have survived by ejecting. F/A-18 pilots were credited with two kills during the Gulf War, both MiG-21s.

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