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Photo Gallery: USMC Legacy Hornets

July 8, 2015
Jason Hyatt 1 Comment Photos

With our latest gallery, we would like to honor the men and women of the United States Marine Corps‘ tactical aviation community who have played any role in flying, maintaining, or supporting the F/A-18 Hornet.

The USMC Hornet fleet is a great example of the “Do more with less” mentality that we are used to attributing to the Marine Corps as a whole.

The first Hornets were delivered to VMFA-314 at MCAS El Toro in January of 1983 (two months prior to the Navy’s first delivery) and saw their first action just a few short years afterward. In April of 1986, F/A-18A’s from VMFA-314 and VMFA-323, flying off the USS Coral Sea, participated in Operations Prairie Fire and El Dorado Canyon. Since cutting its teeth in 1986, Marine Corps Hornets have played a vital role in every conflict since.

They’re definitely not the newest airframes in the inventory, nor are they by any means “low time.” They keep those birds flying, though, and we’re thankful to capture them.












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About the Author

Jason Hyatt is an aerospace industry professional with over 10 years of experience in the military and commercial aviation sectors. Born and raised in the Southwest United States, an area blessed with over 300 days of sunshine per year, he is fortunate to have been in and around aviation his entire life. After a brief stint as a semi-professional soccer player in the early 2000's, he realized his desire to live and work in aviation. While working for Boeing IDS (now BDS) in 2005, he first picked up a camera and started experimenting with aviation photography and photojournalism. As a freelance aviation photojournalist, he has been able to stay close to military aviation, his primary area of interest.

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