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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Robin MORET

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Domingo 25 Xullo 2010

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Xoves 10 Xaneiro 2019

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2211*1920

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

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• Aviation / This Day In Aviation / January

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