On this day in 1989, two F-14A of the U.S. Navy engaged in aerial combat off Libya with two MiG-23. The two fighters from USS John F Kennedy shot down Qaddafi's aircraft, using an AIM-7 Sparrow radar-homing missile and an AIM-9 Sidewinder infrared-homing missile. Two weeks earlier, a 747 from PanAm had been destroyed in flight by a libyan bomb over Lockerbie, Scotland. One of the two F-14 is now on display at the National Air & Space Museum in Washington

aviation , Chantilly , F-14 , Grumman , NASM , National Air & Space Museum , Smithsonian , Tomcat , Udvar Hazy Center , Udvar-Hazy Center , USA , Virginia

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Thursday, January 10, 2019

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