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    Airframe Family: Grumman F-14 Tomcat
    Latest Model:F-14B Tomcat
    Last Military Serial:161422 USN
    Construction Number:432
    Compressed ID:Grumman F-14B sn 161422 USN cn 432
    Latest Owner or Location:Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum, Cape May County Airport, Rio Grande, New Jersey

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-14A-120-GR by Grumman at Calverton, New York, USA.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 161422.

    By June 1984

    Transferred to VF-142, USS Dwight D Eisenhower.
    Operated with markings: 200, AG

    9 June 1984


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: F-14A Tomcat of Fighter Squadron VF-142 aboard the USS Dwight D Eisenhower on display at the 1984 RAF Mildenhall Air Fete.

    9 June 1984


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Mildenhall Air Fete 84

    9 June 1984


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    9 June 1984


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Mildenhall Air Fete 84

    Circa September 1985


    Photographer: Unknown

    Converted to a F-14B.

    New construction number, 432/KB-18, assigned to the airframe.

    By June 1994

    Transferred to VF-143, USS George Washington.
    Operated with markings: 101, AG

    4 June 1994


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At a very wet Yeovilton photo call.

    6 June 1994


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton for 50th Anniversary of D-Day Flypast

    Markings Applied: 112, AA

    To Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum, Cape May County Airport, Rio Grande, NJ.
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    17 June 2021


    Photographer: Barry Evans
    Notes: New paint scheme #112, looks like no engines and has been lightly maintained with paint here and there

    17 June 2021


    Photographer: Barry Evans
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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