Boeing Delivers Final Block II Super Hornet to USN Written 27 April 2020
Two U.S. Navy F/A-18E Super Hornets fly a combat patrol over Afghanistan in 2008. | Staff Sgt. Aaron Allmon; U.S. Air Force; Wikipedia; public domain
FlightGlobal reports that The Boeing Company “has delivered the final Block II F/A-18E/F Super Hornet to the US Navy (USN), handing over the last aircraft on 17 April, says the service.” The USN has “received 322 one-seat F/A-18Es and 286 two-seat F/A-18Fs as part of the Block II Super Hornet program, which started in 2005. The aircraft fuselage is built at Northrop Grumman’s facilities in El Segundo, California. Final assembly is completed at Boeing’s St. Louis facilities.” The USN and Boeing “are also working on a Block III Super Hornet variant. The first two of the service’s Block III test jets are scheduled to be delivered in the next two months, says the USN.”
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