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    Airframe Family: Grumman F-14 Tomcat
    Latest Model:F-14A-105-GR Tomcat
    Last Military Serial:160898 USN
    Construction Number:327
    Latest Owner or Location:Palm Springs Air Museum, Palm Springs International Airport, Palm Springs, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-14A-105-GR by Grumman at Calverton, New York, USA.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 160898.

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    March 1999

    Loaned to Palm Springs Air Museum, Palm Springs International Airport, Palm Springs, CA.
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    January 2000


    Photographer: E Patrick Carroll
    Notes: Photographed at the Palm Springs Air Museum, Palm Springs, CA.

    Markings Applied: AJ, 101

    28 May 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Displayed outside Palm Springs Airport, California

    4 October 2016


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Palm Springs Air Museum, CA.

    21 May 2021


    Photographer: Nate Wilburn

    21 May 2021


    Photographer: Nate Wilburn

    9 April 2022


    Photographer: Paul Cremin
    Notes: On display at the Palm Springs Air Museum as a tribute to the aircraft in the 4th January 1989 incident in the Gulf of Sidra involving Mig-23s out of Libya.Aa
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     National Naval Aviation Museum
    Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    Individual Contributors
     Mike Henniger
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