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    Airframe Family: Grumman F-14 Tomcat
    Latest Model:F-14D Tomcat
    Last Military Serial:163902 USN
    Construction Number:612
    Compressed ID:Grumman F-14D sn 163902 USN cn 612
    Latest Owner or Location:Hickory Aviation Museum, Hickory Regional Airport, Hickory, North Carolina

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-14D.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 163902.

    2002


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At NAS JRB Fort Worth, TX Open House

    26 September 2006

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    Flew the last F-14 flight in the Navy.

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    28 November 2006

    Placed on display with Hickory Aviation Museum, Hickory Regional Airport, Hickory, NC.
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    26 April 2016


    Photographer: Graham Tanner
    Notes: Taken at Hickory, North Carolina, U.S.A.

    21 March 2023


    Photographer: Hickory Aviation Museum
    Notes: F-14D 163902 flew the last official Tomcat flight in 2006 at the Sunset Ceremony at NAS Oceana, VA. For further information, contact the museum at info@hickoryaviationmuseum.com.
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