Display Your Pride with the F18 Hornet Blue Angels Model Airplane

Our F18 Hornet Blue Angels Model Airplane exhibits unmatched, unequaled quality and intricate design to achieve exactness and accuracy of the actual airplane. It also comes with a sturdy, durable base stand which comes in different colors of your choice and a polished chrome steel support mounting rod or avail our variable pitch wall mount accessory.

Our F18 Hornet Blue Angels Model Airplane is made of the finest grade materials which underwent stages of meticulous and careful sanding, carving and modeling to its original form. Our craftsmen and artisans ensure finely handcrafted model airplanes with precise blueprint details of the original aircraft. The Hornet F18 Blue Angels Model Plane's paint scheme, markings and parts are extremely complete, reflecting the original F/A-18 Hornet. This top-quality F/A-18 replica will surely mesmerize anyone who receives this elegant desktop display as a gift. This F/A-18 Hornet model plane is definitely the ideal gift to every aviation enthusiast and avid aircraft collector, reviving the good, old flight memories for it displays perfect resemblance to the actual F18 Hornet.

F/A-18A Hornet Blue Angels History:

The McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet is a twin-engine, multi-mission and tactical aircraft designed for the offensive, both ground and aerial targets.

The F/A-18A entered service on September 13, 1978 and its maiden flight was on November 18.  The first production of F/A-18A flew on April 12, 1980. The F/A-18 first saw combat action in April 1986, the time during operation Prairie Fire, when VFA-131 Hornets from USS Coral Sea flew SEAD missions against Libyan air defenses.

The aircraft has an M611A1 20-mm gun mounted inside the nose of the craft and carries up to 13,700 pounds of external ordinance and has nine weapon stations.

The F/A-18 fulfills these assignments: fighter escort, suppression of enemy air defenses, forward air control, close air support and day and night strike missions.  The F/A-18A has a maximum speed of 1,190 mph at 40,000 ft. and has a ferry range of 2,070 mi. The F/A-18 utilizes various systems and technologies to minimize the likelihood of detection.  It has an APG-73 with increased speed and memory capacity. It also has a laser target designator/ranger  which enables it to deliver precision laser-guided bombs accurately.

In 2001, four F/A-18A aircrafts were deployed to Diego Garcia during coalition operations against the Taliban in Afghanistan.

The F/A-18 has been deployed by the armed services  to the United States (Navy an Marines), Canada, Australia, Spain, Kuwait, Finland, Switzerland and Malaysia.