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    Airframe Family: Grumman F-14 Tomcat
    Latest Model:F-14D(R) Tomcat
    Last Military Serial:161163 USN
    Construction Number:390
    Latest Owner or Location:Prairie Aviation Museum, Bloomington Normal Airport, Bloomington, Illinois

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-14A-110-GR by Grumman at Calverton, New York, USA.

    January 1981

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 161163.

    By April 1981

    Transferred to Fighter Squadron 143 (VF-143), USS Eisenhower.

    September 1982

    Transferred to Fighter Squadron 11 (VF-11), USS Kennedy.

    December 1984

    Transferred to Fighter Squadron 101 (VF-101), NAS Oceana, VA.

    February 1987

    Transferred to Naval Air Test Center, NAS Patuxent River, MD.
    Operated with markings: SD-204

    May 1988

    Transferred to Fighter Squadron 101 (VF-101), NAS Oceana, VA.

    September 1991

    Converted to a F-14D(R).
    New construction number, DR-11, assigned to the airframe.

    September 1992

    Transferred to Standard Level Depot Maintenance (SDLM).

    May 1993

    Transferred to Fighter Squadron 2 (VF-2), USS Constellation.

    May 1996

    Transferred to Fighter Squadron 2 (VF-2), USS Constellation.
    Operated with markings: NE-100

    February 1997

    Transferred to Fighter Squadron 31 (VF-31), NAS Oceana, VA.

    September 1997

    Transferred to Fighter Squadron 101 (VF-101), NAS Oceana, VA.

    1 October 2000

    Transferred to Fighter Squadron 213 (VF-213), NAS Oceana, VA.

    April 2001

    Transferred to Fighter Squadron 101 (VF-101), NAS Oceana, VA.
    Operated with markings: AD-216

    By January 2006

    Transferred to Fighter Squadron 213 (VF-213), USS Theodore Roosevelt.
    Operated with markings: AJ-205

    Flew combat sorties over Persian Gulf.

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

    Ferry flight. Delivered to Prairie Aviation Museum, Bloomington Normal Airport, Bloomington, IL.
    On permanent loan from the National Naval Aviation Museum.
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    13 April 2006

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    13 April 2006


    Photographer: Mike Fuller
    Notes: Arrival day at the Prairie Aviation Museum, Bloomington Illinois

    27 April 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    27 April 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    27 April 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    27 April 2012


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Internet Sources
     National Naval Aviation Museum
    Prairie Aviation Museum
    The Grumman F-14 Reference Work by Torsten Anft
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
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