Size Duel deck / Ships, aircraft and spacecraft
F/A-18A Hornet
Length: wingspan with wingtip missiles fitted
12.3 m (40.4 ft)
Measured with missiles fitted on the wingtip launchers.
Sources and checks
Checked 2026-11-01: Researched by Codex (two independent publishers, verbatim quotes); every counted quote re-found on its page by the server check (content-verify, or content-verify-pdf for PDFs); scope and plausibility reviewed by Claude (AI build agent). Quotes are short passages from each source.
“40 ft 4 in”Pacific Coast Air Museum: source, retrieved 2026-10-27; quote re-found by the server check
“40 ft 4 in”Hickory Aviation Museum: source, retrieved 2026-10-27; quote re-found by the server check
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