As news media and city officials watch from the balcony of the city baseball stadium in Lancaster, Calif., a crane gently positions an F/A-18 Hornet aircraft for mounting on a steel pedestal.
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As news media and city officials watch from the balcony of the city baseball stadium in Lancaster, Calif., 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, Calif., 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.Mar 1997NASA Photo / Tony Landis› F-18 Project Description