A fleet of F/A-18s are being regenerated with upgraded avionics and the first aircraft are already beginning their service duties for the USMC, Boeing has announced.
The F/A 18C is a single seater fighter jet with a twin-engine.
Firstly, the F/A-18Cs platform is put through an overhaul and this is then followed by an avionics upgrade heightening the model to an upgraded C+. The USMC have requested for 30 aircraft to receive the update.
‘Currently, we have two of them that have already been validated,’ said Bill Maxwell, senior manager of Cecil Field F/A-18 operations at Boeing.
These first two aircraft
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