Teen Series

This article is about U.S. combat fighter aircraft. For YA fiction, see teen fiction.

The Teen Series is a popular name^[1][2] for a group of fourth-generation American combat aircraft. The name stems from a series of American supersonic jet fighters built for the United States Air Force and the United States Navy during the late 20th century. The designations system was the 1962 United States Tri-Service aircraft designation system, which reset the F-# sequence. The term typically includes the Grumman F-14 Tomcat, McDonnell Douglas F-15 Eagle, General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon, and McDonnell Douglas F/A-18 Hornet.^[3]

Unsuccessful experimental and prototype fighters assigned numbers in the teen range (13–19) are generally not considered part of the series. Thus, it does not include the prototype Northrop YF-17, which later evolved into the F/A-18. Additionally, the designations F-13 and F-19 were not assigned.

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  F-14 Tomcat – twin-engine, two-seat, swing-wing fighter
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  F-15 Eagle – twin-engine, tactical fighter
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  F-16 Fighting Falcon – multirole fighter
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  F/A-18 Hornet – carrier-capable multirole fighter

See also

• Century Series (US fighters of the 1950s and early 1960s)
• F-19 (hypothetical US fighter aircraft)
  • Lockheed F-117A Nighthawk
• Lockheed YF-12 Blackbird
• Northrop F-20 Tigershark
• List of military aircraft of the United States