F-14 TomCat Featured in Top Gun

Since its release in May, Top Gun: Maverick has been breaking records at the box office and has received overwhelmingly positive reviews.
In just two weeks, the movie grossed over $300 million domestically and $583 million worldwide with a 97% rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a near-unprecedented 00% audience rating.
But, did you know you can see Maverick’s F-14 Tomcat jet featured in the original movie in Corpus Christi? It’s on board the USS Lexington.
The jet was the most featured jet in the movie and has been painted to match the marking in the film with Lt. Mitchell’s name and callsign, according to Steve Banta with USS Lexington.
“We have been told by some guests that they came out of their way just to go a see the way that aircraft is painted,” Banta said.
In the movie, the jet was equipped as a camera ship and shot many of the dramatic air-to-air footage.
This aircraft is on loan from the National Museum of Naval Aviation in Pensacola, Florida. The Grumman F-14 Tomcat is an American carrier-capable supersonic, twin-engine, two-seat, twin-tail, all-weather-capable variable-sweep wing fighter aircraft. The Tomcat was developed for the United States Navy's Naval Fighter Experimental (VFX) program after the collapse of the General Dynamics-Grumman F-111B project. A large and well-equipped fighter, the F-14 was the first of the American Teen Series fighters, which were designed incorporating air combat experience against MiG fighters during the Vietnam War. The F-14 first flew on 21 December 1970 and made its first deployment in 1974 with the U.S. Navy aboard USS Enterprise (CVN-65), replacing the McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II. The F-14 served as the U.S. Navy's primary maritime air superiority fighter, fleet defense interceptor, and tactical aerial reconnaissance platform into the 2000s. The Low Altitude Navigation and Targeting Infrared for Night (LANTIRN) pod system was added in the 1990s and the Tomcat began performing precision ground-attack missions.[1]
The Tomcat was retired by U.S. Navy on 22 September 2006, supplanted by the Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. Several retired F-14s have been put on display across the US.
Having been exported to Pahlavi Iran under the Western-aligned Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi in 1976, F-14s were used as land-based interceptors by the Imperial Iranian Air Force. Following the Iranian Revolution in 1979, the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force used them during the Iran-Iraq War. Iran claimed their F-14s shot down at least 160 Iraqi aircraft during the war (only 55 of these confirmed, according to historian Tom Cooper),[2] while 16 Tomcats were lost, including seven losses to accidents.[2][3] As of 2022, the F-14 remains in service with Iran's air force, though in low numbers of combat-ready aircraft due to a lack of spare parts.

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