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    Airframe Family: Grumman F-14 Tomcat
    Latest Model:F-14A-95-GR Tomcat
    Last Military Serial:160396 USN
    Construction Number:252
    Compressed ID:Grumman F-14A-95-GR sn 160396 USN c...
    Latest Owner or Location:HVF West, Tucson, AZ

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    Dates

    Event

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

    June 1977

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 160396.

    3 June 1977

    To VF-84.
    Markings added: AJ-205

    November 1977

    Transferred to VF-101.
    Operated with markings: AJ-136
    Wore full VF-84 marks and MODEX AJ-136 through this time.

    16 July 1978


    Photographer: Unknown

    20 October 1978

    Transferred to VF-84.
    Operated with markings: AJ-205

    July 1984

    Transferred to VF-101.

    1 July 1987

    Transferred to VF-142.

    27 August 1988

    Transferred to VF-14.
    Operated with markings: AC-104

    5 November 1988

    Transferred to VF-142.

    30 June 1989

    Transferred to VF-14.
    Operated with markings: AC-104

    By April 1996

    Markings Applied: AJ-213

    21 November 1997

    Transferred to VF-201.
    Operated with markings: AF-100

    16 November 1998

    Last flight.
    F-14A 160396 was VF-201s final CAG jet and was the final Tomcat to serve with the Naval Reserves. The crew for her final flight was LCDR. Joe Burns and CDR. Paul Paine. The aircraft was also given the name THE JIMBOB EXPRESS in memory of LCDR. Robert Segars, who was killed in an accident in F-14 162708.

    16 November 1998

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC) with inventory number 1K0118.

    2 August 2001

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    11 March 2008

    To HVF West, Tucson, AZ.

    After 11 March 2008

    Scrapped.
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     Carrier Air Wing by Mike Crutch
    Tomcat Alley by David F. Brown
    Internet Sources
     The AMARC Experience
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Max Sabin
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