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Retired NASA F-18 being lowered on to pedestal mount at Lancaster California Municipal Baseball Stadium - The Hangar Retired NASA F-18 being lowered on to pedestal mount at Lancaster California Municipal Baseball Stadium - The Hangar
Photo Number: EC97-43957-16
Photo Date: Mar 1997
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Description: As news media and city officials watch from the balcony of the city baseball stadium in Lancaster, California, a crane gently positions an F/A-18 Hornet aircraft for mounting on a steel pedestal. The F/A-18 was recently retired by NASA's Dryden Flight Research Center, Edwards, California, after being flown as a safety chase and support aircraft over the past nine years.

The aircraft is now mounted nose skyward on the 28-foot-tall pedestal in front of the Lancaster Municipal Stadium, know as "The Hangar." The stadium is the home field of the Lancaster Jethawks, a Class-A farm team of the Seattle Mariners.
NASA Photo by: Tony Landis
Keywords: F-18 Chase Aircraft; F/A-18; Hornet; Lancaster; The Hangar; Mariners
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