160403/AJ-201 while on duty with VF-41 managed to shoot down a Libyan SU-22 on August 19th, 1981. Now preserved at the American Airpower Heritage Museum, Midland, TX
VF-211 F-14A Tomcat rests on Nimitz flight deck crossing the Atlantic at the end of a round-the-world deployment. (Photographer's name on rear cockpit rail.)
F-14A Tomcat from the Fighting Checkmates of VF-211 returns to USS Nimitz following an Operation Southern Watch mission. The tail design was a squadron tradition when deployed over the Christmas holidays.
F-14A Tomcats from the Fighting Checkmates of VF-211 during a training mission near NAS Key West. The tail design on 101 was used from approx March-September 1998
F-14A Tomcats from the Fighting Checkmates of VF-211 during a training mission near NAS Key West. The tail design shown here was used from July 1996 to September 1997.
On an Operation SOUTHERN WATCH mission, an F-14A Tomcat from VF-211 flies over Southern Iraq with an F/A-18C Hornet from VMFA-314 during the 1997-98 deployment with CVW-9 in USS Nimitz (CVN-68). The F-14 has a special Christmas tail design.