Sponsors (2)
The resolution preserves and publicly shares the Super Hornet’s history for education and military recognition, but it also highlights recent combat use and heavy munitions expenditure that may raise concerns about ongoing deployments and wartime costs.
Museum visitors and local museums gain a reassembled F/A–18 E1 on public display, improving education, heritage preservation, and community access to aviation history.
Service members and carrier aircrews receive official recognition and documented historical record of the Super Hornet’s capabilities and milestones, supporting morale and preserving institutional memory.
Taxpayers and the public may be prompted to question wartime costs and potential civilian harm due to documentation of heavy munitions use (≈124,000 lb), raising concerns about fiscal and humanitarian impacts.
Service members and their families may read the preamble’s emphasis on operational combat use as an indication of ongoing U.S. military involvement overseas, which could signal continued risk of future deployments.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Introduced January 8, 2026 by Ann Wagner · Last progress January 8, 2026
Adopts a set of nonbinding findings that document the history, technical characteristics, operational milestones, and museum transfer of the F/A‑18 E/F Super Hornet family. The text lists dates, tests, service entry, combat and deployment highlights, training bases, and international operators but does not create legal duties, appropriate funds, or direct agency action. The resolution chiefly records facts: first flight and configuration details, size/weight comparisons with earlier Hornet models, notable test flights and combat actions, the transfer and reassembly of an airframe at a St. Louis museum, and training and operating locations in the U.S. and allied countries. It contains no binding directives, authorizations, or appropriations.