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Hey folks 

 

I am thinking to start an F-14A in 1/48 using the Tamiya kit and Fightertown decals "Tomcats At War Pt1 REDUX".  I was reading the Osprey Combat Aircraft No 70, "F-14 Tomcat Units of OEF" and found an interesting load out. AIM-54C and AIM-9M on the port wing station, AAQ-25 and AIM-9M on the starboard and two GBU-16s on the forward BRU-32 pylons. The jet I am considering to do is either the CAG bird (montex AJ100) or the CO jet (montex AJ101) as seen in October 2001 at the start of OEF. However I am a bit confused about the bureau numbers. Osprey gives the AJ100 as 161274, Fightertown  gives VF-41 160608/AJ 100 and 161724/AJ 101. A guy from Hyperscale has posted many years ago an article and he gives AJ/100 as BuNo 162608 and AJ/101 as BuNo 161274.

 

There was a similar post on VF-31 jets a couple of years back. http://www.arcforums.com/forums/air/index.php?/topic/305345-air-to-air-f-14d-loadout-for-oef/  

 

Any information regarding the correct BuNo and the loadouts of this period for VF-41 would be very much appreciated. Thanks! 

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The correct BUNOS for the two jets are,

AJ-100 162608

AJ-101 161274

I had the same issue with the Fightertown sheet, the BUNOS are not correct. The book is also incorrect.

I'm doing a 1/18th scale JSI F-14 repaint for a friend and ran across the same issue. His jet will be AJ-100 from VF-41.

As for the loadouts, in the Tony Holmes book " F-14 Tomcat Units of Operation Enduring Freedom ", pages 32 - 43 talk about what VF-14 and VF-41carried.

Steve

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Same as posted on facebook - 

100 is 162608

101 is 161274

The Fightertown instructions have transposed typo numbers. But the decals are correct

 

For the new instructions and pictures -

https://www.facebook.com/groups/215551215532252/?multi_permalinks=1049917158762316&comment_id=1049994962087869&notif_id=1598282572645277&notif_t=feedback_reaction_generic

 

-brian

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