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===F-14 Tomcat Bureau Numbers ''159437'', ''159610''=== |
===F-14 Tomcat Bureau Numbers ''159437'', ''159610''=== |
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[[File:Grumman F-14D(R) Tomcat 159610 at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, 10 February 2024.jpg|thumb|''159610'' on display at the [[Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center]] in [[Chantilly, Virginia]].]] |
[[File:Grumman F-14D(R) Tomcat 159610 at the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center, 10 February 2024.jpg|thumb|''159610'' on display at the [[Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center]] in [[Chantilly, Virginia]].]] |
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At the request of the [[National Air and Space Museum]], the U.S. Navy provided Bureau Number (BuNo) ''159610'' to its [[Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center|Udvar-Hazy]] location near [[Dulles International Airport]].<ref name="Smithsonian">{{cite web |url=http://www.nasm.si.edu/events/eventDetail.cfm?eventID=548 |title=Tomcat Sunset Saturday: Celebrate the Retirement of the F-14 Tomcat |access-date=2007-01-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070709010340/http://www.nasm.si.edu/events/eventDetail.cfm?eventID=548 |archive-date=2007-07-09 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Although Tomcat BuNo ''159610'' downed the Libyan MiG-23 as a VF-32 F-14A model Tomcat, it returned from that deployment and was entered into the F-14D re-manufacture program, later serving in a precision strike role as a [[VF-31]] F-14D(R).{{cn|date=February 2025}} |
At the request of the [[National Air and Space Museum]], the U.S. Navy provided Bureau Number (BuNo) ''159610'' to its [[Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center|Udvar-Hazy]] location near [[Dulles International Airport]].<ref name="Smithsonian">{{cite web |url=http://www.nasm.si.edu/events/eventDetail.cfm?eventID=548 |title=Tomcat Sunset Saturday: Celebrate the Retirement of the F-14 Tomcat |access-date=2007-01-03 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070709010340/http://www.nasm.si.edu/events/eventDetail.cfm?eventID=548 |archive-date=2007-07-09 |url-status=dead}}</ref> Although Tomcat BuNo ''159610'' downed the Libyan MiG-23 as a VF-32 F-14A model Tomcat, it returned from that deployment and was entered into the F-14D re-manufacture program, later serving in a precision strike role as a F-14D(R) with [[VF-31]].{{cn|date=February 2025}} |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
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