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    Airframe Family: Grumman F-14 Tomcat
    Latest Model:F-14A-70-GR Tomcat
    Last Military Serial:158999 USN
    Construction Number:060
    Compressed ID:Grumman F-14A-70-GR sn 158999 USN c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base, Dallas - Fort Worth, Texas

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    Dates

    Event

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

    By 1974

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 158999.

    By June 1974

    To VF-2.
    Markings added: NK-213

    21 June 1974


    Photographer: Peter Bergagnini
    Notes: Flew with VF-2 Bounty Hunters with Modex code NK-213.

    April 1976

    Transferred to VF-124.

    13 June 1977

    Transferred to VF-1.
    Operated with markings: NK-105

    October 1979

    Markings Applied: NE-112

    February 1981

    Transferred to VF-124.

    28 August 1985

    Transferred to VF-301.
    Operated with markings: ND-103, Quicksilver

    29 November 1992

    This Tomcat logged the 70,000 mishap-free flight hour for VF-301 during an ACM sortie.

    Markings Applied: Whisper
    Given this nickname following a double flameout incident.

    21 February 1993

    Transferred to VF-202.
    Operated with markings: AF-212

    6 September 1994

    Permanently withdrawn from use.

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    By 1998

    Loaned to Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base, Dallas-Fort Worth, TX.
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    March 1998


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At NAS Fort Worth JRB, TX

    24 April 2010


    Photographer: Zane Adams

    15 April 2011


    Photographer: Zane Adams
    Notes: Spotted on static display, on the ramp, at the 2011 Air Expo Airshow.

    23 April 2016


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At NAS Fort Worth JRB, TX.
    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
     National Naval Aviation Museum
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Zane Adams
    Mike Henniger
    Max Sabin
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