page_title: McDonnell Douglas CF-18 Hornet
section_title: Aircraft on display
hierarchical_section_title: McDonnell Douglas CF-18 Hornet / Aircraft on display
caption_attribution_description: Français&#160;: Armements du CF-18 Hornet
context_page_description: The McDonnell Douglas CF-18 Hornet is a Royal Canadian Air Force variant of the American McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet fighter aircraft. In 1980, the F/A-18 was selected as the winner of the New Fighter Aircraft Project competition and awarded a production order; deliveries of the CF-18 to the Canadian Forces began in 1982. CF-18s have supported North American Aerospace Defense Command air sovereignty patrols and participated in combat during the Gulf War in 1991, the Kosovo War in the late 1990s, and as part of the Canadian contribution to the international Libyan no-fly zone in 2011. CF-18s were also part of the Canadian contribution to the military intervention against ISIL, Operation Impact.
context_section_description: 188720 - Air Defence Museum (Saguenay, Québec)
  188723 - Peterson Air and Space Museum, Peterson Air Force Base, Colorado
  188901 - Canada Aviation and Space Museum, Ottawa, Ontario 
  188911 - National Air Force Museum of Canada in Trenton, Ontario
caption: Canadian Rocket Vehicle 7 (CRV7) on a retired CF-18 at the Musée de la Défense aérienne at CFB Bagotville
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