Tomcat in Farm Country
Fri Jun 26, 2009 11:43 pm
Managed to get my family to stop so that I could photograph the WaKeeney Kansas F-14 on the way back east. Fully, it's:
Grumman F-14A TARPS (ex-F-14A-105-GR) BuNo 160925. Oddly, Joe Baugher has it as being displayed at Rickenbacker ANGB
I'd meant to stop and get this on the way to CO, but the weather didn't cooperate, and this is all I got.
Thankfully it was much clearer this time.
She's been completely declawed, though no one seems to have bothered to block off the intakes and exhausts.
A good portion of the bird looked like this. It looks as if someone had gone through the trouble of masking everything off to paint it, but then had forgotten about it completely. It's in rather rough shape, but nothing some TLC wouldn't be able to fix. I'm only annoyed I couldn't photograph it in more detail given how open it is; but there were time constraints. I'll post some more of these later when I've got more time.
Grumman F-14A TARPS (ex-F-14A-105-GR) BuNo 160925. Oddly, Joe Baugher has it as being displayed at Rickenbacker ANGB
I'd meant to stop and get this on the way to CO, but the weather didn't cooperate, and this is all I got.
Thankfully it was much clearer this time.
She's been completely declawed, though no one seems to have bothered to block off the intakes and exhausts.
A good portion of the bird looked like this. It looks as if someone had gone through the trouble of masking everything off to paint it, but then had forgotten about it completely. It's in rather rough shape, but nothing some TLC wouldn't be able to fix. I'm only annoyed I couldn't photograph it in more detail given how open it is; but there were time constraints. I'll post some more of these later when I've got more time.
Sat Jun 27, 2009 8:26 am
Thanks for the pics. Interesting paint job...
F-14 in Farm Country
Tue Jun 30, 2009 9:47 pm
Gale,
I contacted the F-14 Association as they don't have this one listed as a survivor and they were wondering if you or anyone else had additional information on this bird.
I was informed "This aircraft went into service in 1980. It was struck in
1999 and then used as an aircraft rework trainer at the Naval Air Reserve
Center in Columbus, Ohio. "
So it looks like it ha gotten around.
Thanks so much for posting the pictures.
Dave in NJ
I contacted the F-14 Association as they don't have this one listed as a survivor and they were wondering if you or anyone else had additional information on this bird.
I was informed "This aircraft went into service in 1980. It was struck in
1999 and then used as an aircraft rework trainer at the Naval Air Reserve
Center in Columbus, Ohio. "
So it looks like it ha gotten around.
Thanks so much for posting the pictures.
Dave in NJ