<p>Drawing showing the different aircraft flown by the U.S. Navy "Blue Angels" aerobatics team (top to bottom): 
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<ul><li>Grumman F6F-5 <i>Hellcat</i>: June–August 1946</li>
<li>Grumman F8F-1 <i>Bearca</i>t: August 1946 – 1949</li>
<li>Grumman F9F-2 <i>Panther</i>: 1949 – June 1950; F9F-5 <i>Panther</i>: 1951 - Winter 1954/55</li>
<li>Grumman F9F-8 <i>Cougar</i>: Winter 1954/55 - mid-season 1957</li>
<li>Grumman F11F-1 (F-11A) <i>Tiger</i>: mid-season 1957 – 1969</li>
<li>McDonnell Douglas F-4J <i>Phantom II</i>: 1969 – December 1974</li>
<li>Douglas A-4F <i>Skyhawk</i>: December 1974 – November 1986</li>
<li>McDonnell Douglas F/A-18A/C <i>Hornet</i>: November 1986 – present</li></ul>
U.S. Navy
1996
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://allhands.navy.mil/Media/Archives/">U.S. Navy All Hands magazine</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://media.defense.gov/2019/Apr/10/2002112764/-1/-1/1/AH199602.pdf#page=26">February 1996, p. 24.</a>