Neither the US Marine Corps nor the US Navy currently operate any variant of the F-14 Tomcat. This is because the aircraft has been retired from service since 2006, and there are none left in the inventory to operate.

The F-14 saw its first combat in August 1981, downing two Libyan Su-22 fighters over the Gulf of Sidra. It saw considerable duty in the Gulf War, Iraq and Afghanistan. The last F-14 retired from active service with VF-213 in 2006.

Are there any privately owned F-14s? The only privately owned Tomcat I know of, outside of Air Museums, was acquired by famed TV producer and Marine veteran Donald Bellisario for his hit show JAG. Bellisario stressed that his F-14 was acquired through the proper military channels. "They didn't sell us one.

The F-14 “Tomcat” was retired for various reasons, some of the most important being maintenance costs and obsolescence. While the aircraft served the U.S. Navy exemplary for over over 30 years, the aircraft's complex sweep wing engineering became too expensive to manage economically.