In Jan. 1976, the VF-101 began operating and instructing aircrews and maintainers in the F-14 and when the west Tomcat training counterpart, the VF-124 Gunfighters, was disestablished in 1994, the ...

The F-14 BuNo ... VF-101 Grim Reapers at NAS Oceana. In the 1983-84 timeframe, the aircraft arrived at VF-14 Tophatters (as “AE 104”) who operated the aircraft until 1988. The Tomcat then ...

We celebrate the 50th Anniversary of the legendary F-14 Tomcat with an intense story from the cockpit of a 2 vs UNKNOWN engagement during Week Two at “Topgun”, the U.S. Navy Fighter Weapons ...

The video below is a U.S. Navy commercial dating back to the 1981. In the early eighties the F-14 Tomcat was the Navy’s premier fighter: inducted into active service beginning in 1974 ...