F-14A BuNo

162597/NE-100 was

delivered to VF-1 on October

31, 1985, and is pictured at

Miramar on October 14, 1991.

Following service with VF-154, it

was placed into the stricken aircraft

reclamation and disposal (SARDIP) disposal

program at Grumman, St Augustine, Florida, on

February 18, 1999. David F. Brown

V

F1 ‘WOLFPACK’ RECEIVED its

 rst F-14A Tomcats in July 1973,

having been formally established

alongside its sister squadron VF-2

‘Bounty Hunters’. It was recognized

as the  rst  eet squadron to  y

the Tomcat. Home-stationed at NAS Miramar,

California, VF-1 scored the US Navy’s only F-14

aerial ‘kill’ during the 1991 Gulf War, downing a

Mil Mi-8 with an AIM-9 Sidewinder.

The squadron was assigned to Carrier Air Wing

Two (CVW-2) aboard USS Ranger in its later years

before being disbanded in 1993 — it has never

re-emerged.

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