Angus F-18H

[Condor68]

14:15 2 contrails heading west over Angus before turning south to go wet around Arbroath.ADSB Replay shows one as F-18H J-5001 No info on other one .Nothing on FR24 replay

[TB1]

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[Condor68]

Thanks had just found that when you replied.

Cheers

Keith

[Mike]

What's an F-18H?

[Condor68]

Possibly Hornet but most likely thumb glancing H key when hitting return key.It actually came up with F-18H-McDonnell Douglas-F-18C when I Googled it ??mm.

Keith

[Mike]

Fat finger trouble, in other words!

No worries, Keith.

[Nighthawke]

I thought it was the Swiss variant - H for Helvetic

[Mike]

I've just done a replay of ADS-B and it did actually show the type of J-5001 to be an 'F-18H', so I retract my 'fat finger' comment to Keith and apologise profusely.

[POL]

F18H (no hyphen) is the official ICAO identifier for the McDonnell Douglas F-18 Hornet family, everything from A to C, as well as those built by Asta, Boeing, GAF, Patria, SF and Valmet - which are all presumably the foreign air arms' local assembly/maintenance companies!

F18S is the code for the Super Hornet family, of F/A-18E and F, and EA-18G.

[Mike]

Have just checked the type code showing on ADS-B and it was actually 'F18H', thanks for the info, Chris/EGCC/EGVP etc.

[Condor68]

Apo;ogies accepted, i was confused by the F-18H then F-18C but it makes sense now thanks to EGVP,

Thanks

Keith