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    Airframe Family: Grumman F-14 Tomcat
    Latest Model:F-14A-90-GR Tomcat
    Last Military Serial:159825 USN
    Construction Number:185
    Compressed ID:Grumman F-14A-90-GR sn 159825 USN c...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, Florida

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-14A-90-GR by Grumman at Calverton, New York, USA.

    January 1976

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 159825.

    16 January 1976

    To VX-4.

    Transferred to VF-124.

    4 May 1979

    Transferred to VF-2.
    Operated with markings: NK-203

    By October 1979

    Markings Applied: NE-203

    15 December 1981

    Transferred to VF-114.
    Operated with markings: NH-100

    18 May 1984

    Markings Applied: NH-1000
    Given the modex NH-1000 to celebrate Capt. Bob *Burner* Hickeys, then c/o of CVW-11, 1000th arrested landing on an aircraft carrier. Capt. Hickeys 1000th trap was onboard the USS Enterprise.

    By August 1988

    Markings Applied: NH-111

    By May 1991

    Markings Applied: NH-104

    April 1992


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At MCAS El Toro Air Show, CA

    2 July 1992

    Transferred to VF-213.
    Operated with markings: NH-110

    By April 1993

    Markings Applied: NH-105

    10 June 1993

    Transferred to VF-124.

    By October 1993

    Transferred to Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center (NSAWC), NAS Fallon, NV.
    Operated with markings: 30

    9 February 1994

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    To National Naval Aviation Museum, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
    Only the cockpit section survives here.
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    Markings Applied: 114
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     Carrier Air Wing by Mike Crutch
    Tomcat Alley by David F. Brown
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
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     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    AirFighters.com
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
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    Max Sabin
    Tom Tessier
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