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    Airframe Family: Grumman F-14 Tomcat
    Latest Model:F-14B Tomcat
    Last Military Serial:161851 USN
    Construction Number:487
    Compressed ID:Grumman F-14B sn 161851 USN cn 487
    Latest Owner or Location:VF-101

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    Dates

    Event

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

    April 1984

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 161851.

    24 April 1984

    To VF-101.
    Markings added: AD-152

    Circa May 1984


    Photographer: Unknown

    10 December 1987

    Transferred to VF-11.

    11 April 1988

    Transferred to VF-101.

    Converted to a F-14A+.
    New construction number, KB-28, assigned to the airframe.

    8 November 1989

    Transferred to VF-74.
    Operated with markings: AA-107

    3 August 1990

    Transferred to VF-101.

    May 1991

    Redesignated as F-14B.

    22 September 1993

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

    20 January 1995

    Transferred to VF-102.
    Operated with markings: AB-105

    January 1997

    Markings Applied: AB-125

    By April 1997

    Transferred to VF-101.

    22 April 1997

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number 1K0102.

    15 October 1997

    Transferred to VF-32.
    Operated with markings: AC-105

    16 July 1998

    Transferred to VF-101.
    Returned to service.

    14 June 2002

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    July 2002

    Scrapped.
    SARDIP at NAS Oceana, VA.
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Carrier Air Wing by Mike Crutch
    Tomcat Alley by David F. Brown
    Internet Sources
     The AMARC Experience
    The Grumman F-14 Reference Work by Torsten Anft
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Wikipedia
    Individual Contributors
     Max Sabin
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