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    Airframe Family: Grumman F-14 Tomcat
    Latest Model:F-14D(R) Tomcat
    Last Military Serial:159610 USN
    Construction Number:157
    Compressed ID:Grumman F-14D(R) sn 159610 USN cn 1...
    Latest Owner or Location:Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Reston, Virginia

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-14A-85-GR by Grumman at Calverton, New York, USA.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 159610.

    Circa 1989

    Transferred to VF-32, USS John F Kennedy.

    1989

    Markings Applied: 207, AC

    4 January 1989

    Shot down a Libyan MiG-23 over the Gulf of Sidra. Crew Joseph Connelly and Steven Collins.

    Converted to a F-14D(R).

    New construction number, DR-02, assigned to the airframe.

    February 1998

    Transferred to VF-31, USS Abraham Lincoln.

    February 1998

    Markings Applied: 105, NK, 05

    31 May 2003

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    2003

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    By December 2005

    Loaned to Smithsonian, National Air and Space Museum, Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, Chantilly, Reston, VA.
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    Markings Applied: NK/105

    16 September 2011


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    16 September 2011


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    August 2013


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    August 2013


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    5 June 2016


    Photographer: Arjun Sarup
    Notes: Built as an an F-14A-85-GR, this Tomcat was one of two credited with a Libyan MiG-23 kill apiece.
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     National Naval Aviation Museum
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols
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