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    Airframe Family: Grumman F-14 Tomcat
    Latest Model:F-14B Tomcat
    Last Military Serial:161860 USN
    Construction Number:496
    Compressed ID:Grumman F-14B sn 161860 USN cn 496
    Latest Owner or Location:The Aviation Museum of Kentucky, Lexington Blue Grass Airport / Bowman Field, Lexington, Kentucky

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-14A-130-GR by Grumman at Calverton, New York, USA.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 161860.

    By 1987

    Transferred to VF-31, Carrier Air Wing Six (CVW-6), USS Forrestal.
    Operated with markings: AE-203

    July 1988

    Transferred to VF-101.

    Converted to a F-14B.

    April 2001

    Transferred to VF-32.

    1 September 2004


    Photographer: Unknown

    September 2005


    Photographer: Hugh Dodson
    Notes: At NAS Oceana Airshow in 2005

    5 October 2005

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    5 October 2005

    To The Aviation Museum of Kentucky, Lexington Blue Grass Airport/Bowman Field, Lexington, KY.
    View the Location Dossier

    30 April 2010


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Lexington, KY, USA
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2013 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    The Grumman F-14 Reference Work by Torsten Anft
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Peter Nicholson
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