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    Airframe Family: Grumman F-14 Tomcat
    Latest Model:F-14B TARPS Tomcat
    Last Military Serial:161422 USN
    Construction Number:432, KB-18
    Compressed ID:Grumman F-14B TARPS sn 161422 USN c...
    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.

    July 1982

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

    2 July 1982

    To VF-142, USS Dwight D. Eisenhower.
    Markings added: AG-200

    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

    18 August 1987

    Transferred to VF-101.

    Circa 1987

    Converted to a F-14B.
    Converted to F-14A+, later F-14B.

    Circa 1987

    Converted to a F-14B TARPS.

    6 June 1989

    Transferred to VF-103.
    Operated with markings: AA-210

    28 May 1991

    Transferred to VF-143.
    Operated with markings: AG-103

    14 June 1993

    Transferred to FITWING.

    3 February 1994

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

    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

    28 December 1995

    Transferred to VF-103.
    Operated with markings: AA-214

    By April 1997

    Markings Applied: AA-114, Gray Ghost

    16 December 1997

    Transferred to FITWING.

    25 June 1999

    Transferred to VF-102.
    Operated with markings: AB-114

    1 April 2000

    Transferred to VF-32.

    26 March 2002

    Transferred to VF-101.

    20 May 2003

    Transferred to VF-103.
    Operated with markings: AA-112

    After January 2005

    To Naval Air Station Wildwood Aviation Museum, Cape May County Airport, Rio Grande, NJ.
    View the Location Dossier

    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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