Help Save F-14D 'Tomcatter-111' from the Scrappers

For those of you who are aviation fans, which of course should be all of you. 🙂

With the recent retiring of the Last of the F-14 Tomcats most have been shipped off to the boneyard or to museums. All, say for one remaining Tomcat at NAS Oceana. Bureau Number 159600 is the longest serving Tomcat in the Navy and is in jeopardy of being scrapped. But the OV-10 Bronco Association and the Forward Air Controllers Muesum in Ft. Worth, TX are making a conserted effort to try and save her and they need help to do so.

http://warbirdinformationexchange.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=9382

Hello all,

I’m sure most of you appreciate and admire the F-14 Tomcat… and HATE it when any military plane gets scrapped, especially one that’s a combat veteran. The OV-10 Bronco Museum and the Forward Air Controllers Museum in Ft. Worth, TX (both are organizations that I have been deeply involved with from the beginning and do websites for) are trying hard to save the longest-serving F-14 from the smelter. Our museum is the last chance to save F-14D “Tomcatter-111” (aka “Christine”, BuNo 159600) as several other museums were approached and either didn’t want her or didn’t have the resources to do it. If our group doesn’t get her, she’s going to be destroyed in short order (i.e., “scrapped in place”) which would be a darn shame to say the least.

Please pass the word along to anyone else you know who may be interested in helping… we only have until November to raise the money to save her, after that it will be too late. Time is SHORT!

Full details on the aircraft and how to help are posted on our website:

http://www.OV-10Bronco.net

(And to answer our number one inquiry recently… yes, you can donate via PayPal!)

Thanks,
Mike

If you can help monetarily please do so or if you can in other ways let them know. At the very least please pass this information is running short.

Thanks

Shay
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