Grounded, but Safe

Though this F-14A will never fly again, it will be safe from the scrapper's torch (or use as a target drone) at the combat Air Museum in Topeka, KS. Here it's been pulled out for display at the 2013 Warbirds airshow.

Here's it's (surprising) history:
December 1983 Fighter Squadron VF-124 Gunfighters
January 1984 Fighter Squadron VF-21 Freelancers
June 1988 Fighter Squadron VF-111 Sundowners
January 1990 Fighter Squadron VF-211 Checkmates
June 1998 Fighter Squadron VF-41 Black Aces
November 2001 Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center (Top Gun), Naval Air Station Fallon, Nevada
October 24, 2003 Combat Air Museum

I'd like to see it painted for the Sundowners or Black Aces.

CAM website: www.combatairmuseum.org/