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    Airframe Family: Grumman F-14 Tomcat
    Latest Model:F-14A-95-GR Tomcat
    Last Military Serial:160403 USN
    Construction Number:259
    Compressed ID:Grumman F-14A-95-GR sn 160403 USN c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Midland Army Air Field Museum, Midland International Airport (MAF), Midland, Texas

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-14A-95-GR by Grumman at Calverton, New York, USA.

    July 1978

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 160403.

    July 1978

    To VF-101.
    Markings added: AD-101

    By September 1980

    Transferred to VF-84.
    Operated with markings: AJ-203

    By August 1981

    Transferred to VF-41.
    Operated with markings: AJ-102

    19 August 1981

    One of two VF-41 F-14As that downed a Libyan Su-22 on 19 August 1981. Crew for the kill was late CDR Hank Kleeman and LT David Venlet (RIO). Other VF-41 F-14A was BuNo 160390, modex AJ-107.

    From By 1994 to 1998

    Transferred to VF-154.
    Operated with markings: NF-103

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

    Loaned to Commemorative Air Force Airpower Museum, Midland International Airport (MAF), Midland, TX.
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    Loaned to American Airpower Heritage Museum Midland Texas.

    By 8 November 2012


    Photographer: Zane Adams

    Placed on display with Midland Army Air Field Museum, Midland International Airport (MAF), Midland, TX.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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    National Naval Aviation Museum
    The Grumman F-14 Reference Work by Torsten Anft
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     Mike Henniger
    Noah Rechtin
    Max Sabin
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