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    Airframe Family: Grumman F-14 Tomcat
    Latest Model:F-14A-70-GR Tomcat
    Last Military Serial:158978 USN
    Construction Number:39
    Compressed ID:Grumman F-14A-70-GR sn 158978 USN c...
    Latest Owner or Location:USS Midway Museum, San Diego, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-14A-70-GR by Grumman at Calverton, New York, USA.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 158978.

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    Loaned to Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum (Annex), Miramar MCAS (North Side), San Diego, CA.
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    By April 2004

    To USS Midway Museum, San Diego, CA.
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    27 February 2009


    Photographer: Bill Kistler

    2 June 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Displayed on the USS Midway on the Waterfront at San Diego, California

    2 June 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Displayed on the USS Midway on the Waterfront at San Diego, California

    July 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    July 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    July 2014


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    21 April 2017


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: At the USS Midway Museum in San Diego, CA, USA.

    1 October 2022


    Photographer: Mark Bondoc

    1 October 2022


    Photographer: Mark Bondoc
    Credits
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    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2007 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     National Naval Aviation Museum
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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