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F-14A-130-GR



BuNo Type Unit Modex # Date
      F-14A-130-GR
161850 F-14A VF-211 02/1999
a/c stricken 30.09.1999
161851 F-14A
VF-101
VF-101


AD105
KB-28: converted to F-14B
02/1999
04/2001
SARDIP 07.2002 at NAS Oceana
161852 F-14A VF-31 AE211 01/1988
a/c stricken 15.09.1997
161853 F-14A VF-11
VF-211
AE102 10/1982
02/1999
a/c stricken 16.03.1999
161854 F-14A VF-31 18.06.1988
161855 F-14A
VF-103

AA112
KM-6: converted to F-14B
04/2001 & 07/2003
161856 F-14A VF-211
VF-41
VF-41
NG101

AJ102
1997
02/1999
06/2001
161857 F-14A VF-11 AE104 03/1990
a/c stricken 04.08.1999
161858 F-14A VF-31

VF-143
VF-102
VF-101
VF-101
AC202

AG112

AD104
AD114
06/1985
KM-1: converted to F-14B
05/1995
02/1999
04/2001
06/2003
161859 F-14A
VF-101
VF-102


AD100
KM-8: converted to F-14B
02/1999
04/2001
161860 F-14A VF-101

VF-32
AD154

AC101
07/1988
KM-4: converted to F-14B
04/2001
since 2005: Aviation Museum of Kentucky, located on Bluegrass Airport in Lexington, KY
161861 F-14A a/c stricken 15.12.1992
161862 F-14A
VX-9
VF-32

XF-240
AC102
KM-2: converted to F-14B
04/1999
04/2001
161863 F-14A VF-14
VF-14

AJ204
02/1999
04/2001
a/c stricken 16 Dec 2003
161864 F-14A VF-11
VF-41
AC106
AJ111
1987
05/1996 - 05/1998
a/c stricken 22.09.1998
161865 F-14A Grumman/Navy 501 11/1987
NF-14D testbed,
a/c stricken 31.05.1996
161866 F-14A VF-101
VF-154
AD153
NF100
10/1988 & 04/2001
02/2002 & 09/2002
161867 F-14A NF-14D testbed,
a/c stricken 31.01.1997
161868 F-14A VF-31
VF-84
AE210
AJ216
10/1988
10/1994
a/c stricken 04.08.1999
161869 F-14A NSAWC 04/2001
SARDIP
161870 F-14A
VF-74
VF-143
VF-32
VF-143

AA102
AG107

AG112
KB-31: converted to F-14B
04/1990
06/1994
02/1999
04/2001 & 08/2002
161871 F-14A VF-11

VF-103
VF-143
AE103

AA210
AG102
1987
KB-29: converted to F-14B
09/1994
21.10.1999: A/C was lost upon launch from USS Dight D. Eisenhower while operating off Puerto Rico.
A crew member remembers (Note: This crew member recalls his thoughts, not a Navy statement. His thought may be erraneous or exaggerated.): "The F-14B was on Catapult 1. It was night ops and pretty dark. I was in the berthing on the 2nd deck all the way back aft just about ... Talking to some friends and stuff ... getting ready to crawl in my rack when the ship started violently shaking ... so bad that our boots and stuff fell off the top of the lockers. I immediately started to run to my shop. On the way people screamed 'get out of the way'. By the time I got to the shop people were screaming 'a/c in the water, it's an F-14', so I thought it was one of VF-11's...You think the worse when you are there. I looked over the catwalk and saw two vertical stabs bobbing up and down like shark fins ... Shreds of metal everywhere ... didn't even look like a jet anymore ... We saw strobes in the water. Two, they were both ejected and it seemed like forever before they got back safe by helo. Recap of events while I was below deck: A close friend and co-worker was starting up a seperate crew on Cat 2 area. He saw the F-14 on Cat 1 start down the track and the nose strut collapsed. The pilot executed full burner but the strut FODed out both engines...The F-14 went over the bow and disapeared. Nobody saw them eject because they were so low. The F-14 skipped off the water and climbed abruptly less than 500ft high while in a hard roll. Then it burst into a huge fireball. The carrier had thrown the ship in full reverse to prevent hitting the jet. By the time I got up there it was all smoke and that's when we spotted the pilot and Rio."
161872 F-14A VF-11
VF-11
AE100 11/1982
12.08.1987
161873 F-14A
VF103
VF-143

AA202
AG104
KB-32: converted to F-14B
05/1995
04/2001 & 08/2002



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