23 Jul 1987: First flight. 24 Aug 1987: TOS USMC and assigned to Marine Attack Squadron 223 (VMA-223), MCAS Cherry Point, NC. By 5/88: VMA-542, MCAS Cherry Point. By 12/90: VMA-231, which deployed to Al Jubail Air Base, Saudi Arabia for combat in Operation Desert Storm. By 7/94: VMA-223. By 3/02: Stored dismantled at Cherry Point. 6 Feb 2003 SOC. As late as May 2009 was still dismantled at Cherry Point.

23 Jul 1987: First flight. 24 Aug 1987: TOS USMC and assigned to Marine Attack Squadron 223 (VMA-223), MCAS Cherry Point, NC. By 5/88: VMA-542, MCAS Cherry Point. By 12/90: VMA-231, which deployed to Al Jubail Air Base, Saudi Arabia for combat in Operation Desert Storm. By 7/94: VMA-223. By 3/02: Stored dismantled at Cherry Point. 6 Feb 2003 SOC. As late as May 2009 was still dismantled at Cherry Point.

162972 delivered to the USMC on 24 August 1987 and assigned to Marine Attack Squadron 223 (VMA-223) at MCAS Cherry Point, NC, Seen 5 days later at NAS Glenview, IL open house! By May 1988 it was with VMA-542, also at Cherry Point, and then by December 1990 it was with another Cherry Point Squadron, VMA-231, which deployed to Saudi Arabia for combat in Operation Desert Storm. By July 1994 it was re-assigned to VMA-223. By March 2002 it was stored dismantled at Cherry Point. The plane was Struck off Charge Feb 6, 2003, and as late as May 2009 was still dismantled at Cherry Point.