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    Airframe Family: Grumman F-14 Tomcat
    Latest Model:F-14D Tomcat
    Last Military Serial:164601 USN
    Construction Number:629/D-34
    Compressed ID:Grumman F-14D sn 164601 USN cn 629/...
    Latest Owner or Location:Castle Air Museum, Castle Airport (formerly Castle AFB), Atwater, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-14D.

    17 April 1992

    First flight.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 164601.

    Transferred to VF-124 (FRS), NAS Miramar.

    From By 2002 to 2003

    Transferred to VF-31, CVN-72.
    Flew as the CAG jet. By the time Shock and Awe came up in OIF she has dropped 19 JDAMS, and was even shot at by an Iraqi SAM.

    19 June 2003


    Photographer: Roy Simmons

    15 May 2004


    Photographer: Zane Adams
    Notes: F-14 demonstration aircraft at Carswelll AFB airshow, 2004

    By 2005

    Transferred to VF-101 (FRS).

    September 2005


    Photographer: Hugh Dodson
    Notes: At NAS Oceana Airshow in 2005

    20 September 2005

    Ferry flight.
    Flown from NAS Oceana to NAS North Island.

    Ferry flight.
    Roy Simmons comments (15 May 2019): And then from there to Castle Airport for her last time and by 13:36hrs she was not breathing any more.

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    Loaned to Castle Air Museum, Castle Airport (formerly Castle AFB), Atwater, CA.
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    12 September 2010


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    12 September 2010


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    3 September 2017


    Photographer: Roy simmons


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: Felix 100 before her last West Pac.

    6 October 2022


    Photographer: Mark Bondoc

    6 October 2022


    Photographer: Mark Bondoc


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: this photo is of Gunfighter 160 just came out of the Paint shop in the Squadrons old 70s paint job.


    Photographer: Unknown
    Notes: Just after the last Tomcat West Pac, a side note there were three stencil markings on the front nose gear door indicating that her noes gear was ripped out three different times.
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     Mike Henniger
    Roy Simmons
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