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    Airframe Family: Grumman F-14 Tomcat
    Latest Model:F-14B-145-GR Tomcat
    Last Military Serial:162916 USN
    Compressed ID:Grumman F-14B-145-GR sn 162916 USN
    Latest Owner or Location:Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 8896 - Richard R. Gross Post, East Berlin, Pennsylvania

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-14B-145-GR by Grumman at Calverton, New York, USA.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 162916.

    By November 1990

    Transferred to VF-143, USS Dwight D Eisenhower.

    By November 1990

    Markings Applied: 105, 05, AG, IKE
    USN Low-vis c/s. 105 on nose, AG and IKE on rudder, small 05 at top of rudder.

    By November 1990

    Airframe is classified as a F-14A PLUS by the USN on the airframe just above the BuNumber.

    10 November 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at NAS Pensacola Air Show

    29 September 2005

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    2006

    Loaned to Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 8896-Richard R. Gross Post, East Berlin, PA.
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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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    Robert Nichols
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