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Re: Northrop/FIRST
The last F-14 was delivered from Calverton in the early 90's. I remember during the last company picnic held out there, the last new F-14 was doing touch-and-go tests, so it kept roaring over the picnic grounds.
After that the F-14 program was moved to Pax River, MD and Grumman moved out of the buildings. All the land and buildings at Calverton were Navy owned, it was really a Navy facility, so Grumman handed the buildings back to the Navy in the late 90's and around 2000 the Navy handed it all over to Riverhead for development.
There is still one F-14 at Calverton mounted on a pedestal at a Grumman memorial park on rte. 25. It was flown into Calverton and circled Bethpage on it's final flight. The PA kept us briefed on where it was and we all went out to watch when it arrived.
The news brief Cheryl posted above has already gotten us some queries from local Long Island schools that aren't yet involved in FIRST.
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Last edited by Mark McLeod : 20-09-2004 at 12:11.
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