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    Airframe Family: Grumman F-14 Tomcat
    Latest Model:F-14A-105-GR Tomcat
    Last Military Serial:160898 USN
    Construction Number:327
    Compressed ID:Grumman F-14A-105-GR sn 160898 USN...
    Latest Owner or Location:Palm Springs Air Museum, Palm Springs International Airport, Palm Springs, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-14A-105-GR by Grumman at Calverton, New York, USA.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 160898.

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    March 1999

    Loaned to Palm Springs Air Museum, Palm Springs International Airport, Palm Springs, CA.
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    January 2000


    Photographer: E Patrick Carroll
    Notes: Photographed at the Palm Springs Air Museum, Palm Springs, CA.

    Markings Applied: AJ, 101

    28 May 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Displayed outside Palm Springs Airport, California

    4 October 2016


    Photographer: Robert Bourlier
    Notes: Palm Springs Air Museum, CA.

    21 May 2021


    Photographer: Nate Wilburn

    21 May 2021


    Photographer: Nate Wilburn

    9 April 2022


    Photographer: Paul Cremin
    Notes: On display at the Palm Springs Air Museum as a tribute to the aircraft in the 4th January 1989 incident in the Gulf of Sidra involving Mig-23s out of Libya.Aa
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     National Naval Aviation Museum
    Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    Individual Contributors
     Mike Henniger
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