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    Airframe Family: Grumman F-14 Tomcat
    Latest Model:F-14A Tomcat
    Last Military Serial:159025 USN
    Construction Number:086
    Compressed ID:Grumman F-14A sn 159025 USN cn 086
    Latest Owner or Location:Patriots Point Naval and Marine Museum (USS Yorktown), Mount Pleasant, Charleston, South Carolina

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-14A.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 159025.

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    April 1995

    Placed on display with Patriots Point Naval and Marine Museum (USS Yorktown), Mount Pleasant, Charleston, SC.
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    12 May 2010


    Photographer: Thomas Delvoye

    January 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla
    Notes: F-14A Tomcat

    1 May 2016


    Photographer: Graham Tanner
    Notes: Taken at USS Yorktown, Patriots Point, Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.A.

    6 March 2023


    Photographer: Liam Farrell
    Notes: Under the left wing, paint changed since photo taken in 2016.

    6 May 2023


    Photographer: Joshua and Maverick Yates
    Notes: She is fresh off a new coat of paint and some skin repair in the last few months. Best exterior condition in years.
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