Keeping the ‘legacy’ alive Part two: Export operators

Exported to seven nations from Canada in the north to Australia in the south, the F/A-18A/B/C/D ‘heritage’ Hornet still remains in service with every one of those customers in 2019. ‘Heritage’ Hornets The ‘heritage’ Hornet’s tenure with several air forces is numbered. Replacements have been selected or are sought in a number of cases, and in certain air forces some individual aircraft have already been retired or stripped for spares. But in other air arms, essentially modest upgrade programmes are