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    Airframe Family: Grumman F-14 Tomcat
    Latest Model:F-14D(R) Tomcat
    Last Military Serial:159600 USN
    Construction Number:147
    Compressed ID:Grumman F-14D(R) sn 159600 USN cn 1...
    Latest Owner or Location:Fort Worth Aviation Museum, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Texas

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-14A-85-GR by Grumman at Calverton, New York, USA.

    16 July 1975

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 159600.

    By 12 December 1977

    To VF-142.
    Markings added: AE-210

    By September 1978

    Markings Applied: AG-210

    March 1979

    Transferred to VF-101.

    17 February 1981

    Transferred to VF-142.
    Operated with markings: AG-203

    20 May 1983

    Transferred to VF-14.
    Operated with markings: AE-104

    1986


    Photographer: Dana A.Nichols
    Notes: At Cleveland, OH.

    By May 1986

    Markings Applied: AC-104

    12 June 1987

    Transferred to VF-142.
    Operated with markings: AG-206

    5 June 1989

    Transferred to VF-101.

    1990

    Converted to a F-14D(R).

    1990

    New construction number, DR-5, assigned to the airframe.

    1 March 1994

    Transferred to VF-2.
    Operated with markings: NE-115

    By January 1999

    Markings Applied: NE-110

    24 October 2001

    Transferred to FITWING.

    10 February 2003

    Transferred to VF-101.

    16 November 2004

    Transferred to VF-31.
    Operated with markings: AJ-111

    By 2006

    Markings Applied: Christine
    While on its final cruise (September 2005 - March 2006) aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt, this aircraft would experience a structural failure - a bulkhead blew out during routine maintenance. The aircraft became a maintenance challenge for months but was returned to flight status.

    Circa 2006

    Permanently withdrawn from use.
    When WFU, this was the longest-serving F-14 Tomcat in the US Navy.

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    3 March 2007

    Transported by air. Delivered to Fort Worth Aviation Museum, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, TX.
    The aircraft arrived in Fort Worth aboard a Lockheed C-5A Galaxy.
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    23 July 2015


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Fort Worth Aviation Museum, Meacham Airport, TX.

    19 August 2017


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Fort Worth Aviation Museum, TX.

    30 May 2020


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Fort Worth Aviation Museum.

    26 April 2024


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Fort Worth - Meacham Field, TX, USA

    29 November 2024


    Photographer: Max Sabin

    29 November 2024


    Photographer: Max Sabin
    Notes: Noseart.
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