Aircraft_flown_by_the_US_Navy_Blue_Angels_1946_to_1996.jpg

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Drawing showing the different aircraft flown by the U.S. Navy "Blue Angels" aerobatics team (top to bottom):

  • Grumman F6F-5 Hellcat : June–August 1946
  • Grumman F8F-1 Bearca t: August 1946 – 1949
  • Grumman F9F-2 Panther : 1949 – June 1950; F9F-5 Panther : 1951 - Winter 1954/55
  • Grumman F9F-8 Cougar : Winter 1954/55 - mid-season 1957
  • Grumman F11F-1 (F-11A) Tiger : mid-season 1957 – 1969
  • McDonnell Douglas F-4J Phantom II : 1969 – December 1974
  • Douglas A-4F Skyhawk : December 1974 – November 1986
  • McDonnell Douglas F/A-18A/C Hornet : November 1986 – present
Date
Source U.S. Navy All Hands magazine February 1996, p. 24.
Author U.S. Navy
Permission
( Reusing this file ) 		"All photographs published in ALL HANDS are official Department of Defense photographs unless otherwise designated."

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This image is a work of a U.S. military or Department of Defense employee, taken or made as part of that person's official duties. As a work of the U.S. federal government , the image is in the public domain in the United States.

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