Hobby Master US Navy Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet Strike Fighter - 166628, VFA-32 "Fighting Swordsmen", EAA Air Venture, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 2023 (1:72 Scale)

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US Navy Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet Strike Fighter - 166628, VFA-32 "Fighting Swordsmen", EAA Air Venture, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 2023 (1:72 Scale)

Hobby Master US Navy Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet Strike Fighter - 166628, VFA-32 "Fighting Swordsmen", EAA Air Venture, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 2023

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Hobby Master HA5137 US Navy Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet Strike Fighter - 166628, VFA-32 "Fighting Swordsmen", EAA Air Venture, Oshkosh, Wisconsin, 2023 (1:72 Scale) "...train fighter air crews at the graduate level in all aspects of fighter weapons systems including tactics, techniques, procedures and doctrine. It serves to build a nucleus of eminently knowledgeable fighter crews to construct, guide, and enhance weapons training cycles and subsequent aircrew performance. This select group acts as the F-4 community's most operationally orientated weapons specialists. TOPGUN's efforts are dedicated to the Navy's professional fighter crews, past, present and future."
- 1973 command history of the Navy Fighter Weapons School

The Boeing F/A-18E and F/A-18F Super Hornet are twin-engine carrier-capable multirole fighter aircraft variants based on the McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet. The F/A-18E single-seat and F/A-18F tandem-seat variants are larger and more advanced derivatives of the F/A-18C and D Hornet. The Super Hornet has an internal 20 mm M61 rotary cannon and can carry air-to-air missiles and air-to-surface weapons. Additional fuel can be carried in up to five external fuel tanks and the aircraft can be configured as an airborne tanker by adding an external air refueling system.

Designed and initially produced by McDonnell Douglas, the Super Hornet first flew in 1995. Full-rate production began in September 1997, after the merger of McDonnell Douglas and Boeing the previous month. The Super Hornet entered service with the United States Navy in 1999, replacing the Grumman F-14 Tomcat, which was retired in 2006; the Super Hornet serves alongside the original Hornet. The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), which has operated the F/A-18A as its main fighter since 1984, ordered the F/A-18F in 2007 to replace its aging F-111C fleet. RAAF Super Hornets entered service in December 2010.

Pictured here is a gorgeous 1:72 scale diecast replica of a United States Navy F/A-18E Super Hornet that was attached to VFA-32 "Fighting Swordsmen", which participated in the EAA Air Venture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, during 2023. Now in stock!

Dimensions:
Wingspan: 7-1/2-inches
Length: 9-inches

Release Date: May 2024

Historical Account: "Fighting Swordsmen" - Strike Fighter Squadron 32 (VFA-32), nicknamed the "Fighting Swordsmen" are a United States Navy strike fighter squadron presently flying the F/A-18F Super Hornet and based ashore at Naval Air Station Oceana. Their radio callsign is Gypsy and their tail code is AC. The Fighting Swordsmen of VFA-32 are the 2023 recipients of the Mutha Fighter Spirit Award, awarded annually at the Navy's Strike Fighter Ball in Norfolk, VA.

Their mission is: "Strike Fighter Squadron 32, as a part of United States Naval Aviation, utilizes the F/A-18F aircraft to project power ashore and at sea, to defend the Fleet against air and sea threats and to carry out all other missions which may be assigned by cognizant authority."