Build Number and Year

I know I’ve come across the build number for the Hornet we’re getting, but I just can’t find it. Can someone point me in the right direction please?

Also, I’ve seen our hornet described as “mid 2000’s” in several places, do we know the actual year of completion or is that not being shared?

F/A-18C Lot 20

165399 thru 165408

BUNO 165407.

Of course, the simulation may not necessarily be entirely representative of an individual aircraft, I wonder if it simply has to do with photographic material of the cockpit used.

F/A-18C Lot 20

165399 thru 165408

BUNO 165407.

 

Of course, the simulation may not necessarily be entirely representative of an individual aircraft, I wonder if it simply has to do with photographic material of the cockpit used.

Thank you both :) AKarhu. I expect that you're right about the build number not being entirely representative. I am just hoping I might be able to use that to identify the year of the a/c being simulated.

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... and as mentioned before, our Hornet is a mid-2000s version.

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Thanks SkateZilla, I guess there is no chance of getting a single year?

EDIT: Never mind, got it sorted, thanks for the input :)

You don't need the Buno # to figure out what year the aircraft was built - the Lot # tells you that.

A Lot denotes the number of aircraft built within one fiscal year - in the case of the DCS version, its a Lot 20, which in turn means that it was built in FY 98.

A fiscal year doesn't follow the calendar year, but runs from the last quarter of the previous year to 30 sept. in the current one - i.e. FY98 = 1 oct. 1997 to 30 sept. 1998.

With the Buno # you can further figure out when approx. within the FY a particular airframe was built - from screenshots of the DCS Hornet cockpit, you can see that the Buno # is 165407, which makes it the second last airframe of the Lot and thus must be from the fall of 1998 :) .

Mind you, the DCS version might have been built in 1998, but it has upgrades(AMPCD, JHMCS and ATFLIR) that date to around 2004-2005.

You don't need the Buno # to figure out what year the aircraft was built - the Lot # tells you that.

 

A Lot denotes the number of aircraft built within one fiscal year - in the case of the DCS version, its a Lot 20, which in turn means that it was built in FY 98.

 

A fiscal year doesn't follow the calendar year, but runs from the last quarter of the previous year to 30 sept. in the current one - i.e. FY98 = 1 oct. 1997 to 30 sept. 1998.

 

With the Buno # you can further figure out when approx. within the FY a particular airframe was built - from screenshots of the DCS Hornet cockpit, you can see that the Buno # is 165407, which makes it the second last airframe of the Lot and thus must be from the autom 1998 :) .

 

Mind you, the DCS version might have been built in 1998, but it has upgrades(AMPCD, JHMCS and ATFLIR) that date to around 2004-2005.

Thanks so much, that’s exactly what I wanted to know, and it’s great to have the information to work it out for myself next time :book:

Thanks so much, that’s exactly what I wanted to know, and it’s great to have the information to work it out for myself next time :book:

You are welcome :)

Lot 20's of the F/A18C's were built in 1998.

But Ed is representing a Version with 2000s era upgrades.

unlike 1998 Production this particular hornet will have the AMPCD ( introduced circa 2003) a LCD based display replacing the earlier CRT MPCD.

It will have aim9x ( 2003) along with JHMCS ( off boresight helmet hud) which went operational around in 2005 with the First F/A18C squadron. it will also have Link 16 datalink support ( mostly be felt via SA page), as well as a current service targeting pod ( ATflir)

So yeah MId 2000s is fair time placement give or take of this Hornet like mentioned by the devs.

Edit:

NVM already answered.