This Cat was delivered as a F-14A-120-GR to VF-143 (AG-101) on 2 August 1982. It was upgraded and retrofitted - as the second F-14A - by Grumman to F-14B. It returned to VF-143 (AG-103) as such in 1989. Later it served VF-103 (AA-205), returned to VF-143 (AG-104, AG-106), served VF-32 (AC-102), returned to VF-143 (AG-103, AG-113, AG-103) and VF-101 - Fleet Replacement Squadron shore-based at NAS Oceana as part of the CFWL = Commander Fighter Wing AtLantic (AG-103, as pictured). It was stricken and flown over to DeLand Naval Air Station Museum (FL) where it arrived on 31 May 2005.

Photographer A.C. Brooks