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A underside view of an F/A-18 Hornet aircraft assigned to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron Four (VX-4)

A right side view of a Test and Evaluation Squadron 4 (VX-4) F/A-18C Hornet aircraft being serviced on the flight line

A right side view of two F/A-18 Hornet aircraft from Air Test and Evaluation Squadron Four (VX-4), parked on the runway at Pacific Missile Test Center. Two A-7 Corsair II aircraft, with wings folded, are parked in front of the hangar

An underside view of an Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 4 (VX-4) F/A-18C Hornet aircraft in-flight. VX-4 is testing and evaluating the AIM-120 advanced medium range air-to-air missile (AMRAAM). The Hornet is armed with eight AMRAAMs on four wing pylons and two on the fuselage. The Hornet also carries two AIM-9 Sidewinder missiles, one on each wing tip

An air-to-air right side view of an F-4 Phantom II aircraft from Pacific Missile Test Center

A Harpoon missile is fitted onto the fuselage of an A-4 Skyhawk aircraft at the Pacific Missile Test Center

An air-to-air left side view of an F-18A Hornet aircraft with AIM-9L Sidewinder dummy missiles mounted on its wing tips. The aircraft is from Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 4 (VX-4) assigned to Fighter/AEW Wing Pacific

An air-to-air left front view of an F/A-18 Hornet aircraft from the aircraft carrier USS CONSTELLATION (CV 64) during operational evaluation (OPEVAL) tests of Sparrow and Sidewinder missiles

Aviation Boatswain�s Mate 2nd Class Juan Canales directs an F/A-18 Hornet from Air Test and Evaluation Squadron Two Three (VX-23) to one of four steam driven catapults on the ship�s flight deck

Visitors to Pacific Missile Test Center examine an F/A-18 Hornet aircraft from Air Test and Evaluation Squadron Four (VX-4) during an open house

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Base: Naval Air Station, Point Mugu

State: California (CA)

Country: United States Of America (USA)

Scene Camera Operator: PHC K. K. Thornsley

Release Status: Released to Public

Combined Military Service Digital Photographic Files

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17/02/1981
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label_outline Explore Vx, Pacific Missile Test Center, Point Mugu Naval Base

A underside view of an F/A-18 Hornet aircraft assigned to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron Four (VX-4)

Frank Kendall, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition,

An air-to-air right side view of four F/A-18 Hornet aircraft from Fighter Attack Squadron 125 (VFA-125). The squadron is on a 23-day deployment from Naval Air Station, Lemoore, California. VFA-125 began flying the F/A-18 aircraft about 12 months ago. Squadron pilots have accumulated more than 1,500 hours in the aircraft so far

Aerial view of the Naval Air Reserve Unit (NARU) building recently constructed at the Pacific Missile Test Center (PMTC)

An Advanced Medium Range Air-to-Air Missile (AMRAAM) before it is dropped into a "Catcher's Mitt" during a ground ejection test from the wing of an F-14A Tomcat aircraft at the Pacific Missile Test Center

A catapult crew member signals as a Strike Fighter Squadron 106 (VFA-106) F/A-18 Hornet aircraft prepares to launch from the flight deck of the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS DWIGHT D. EISENHOWER (CVN-69)

A flight deck crewmen signals to the pilot of an Air Test and Evaluation Squadron 1 (VX-1) ES-3A Shadow aircraft in preparation for a catapult launch from the aircraft carrier USS SARATOGA (CV-60) during the NATO exercise Display Determination '92

Crew members service an F/A-18 Hornet aircraft from Strike Fighter Squadron 125 (VFA-125) on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS KITTY HAWK (CV 63)

Test flight, US Navy Photogrpah

An F-35C Lightning II carrier variant, assigned to the Salty Dogs of Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 23, lands on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73).

170716-N-HA376-320 NAVAL BASE VENTURA COUNTY, Calif.

US Marine Corps (USMC) Corporal (CPL) Thomas Kephart (foreground), assigned to Corrosion Control, Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron Three One (MALS-31), paints caution and warning signs on the intake of a USMC F/A-18 Hornet aircraft, at Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Beaufort, South Carolina (SC)

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