On April 25, 1987, the Blue Angels, the Navy’s Flight Demonstration Squadron, conducted its first air show using their newly assigned aircraft, F/A-18 Hornets.
Categories: 100 Years of Naval Aviation
 
 
Thank you to the Mario Family Foundation for enabling the digitization of the U.S. Naval Institute’s Photo Archive. The physical photos in the Photo Archive are stored in the Mildred M. Mario Photo Archive Room located at the U.S. Naval Institute’s Headquarters in Annapolis, MD.

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