On each flying day, this pair would be part of a formation trailing a tanker, and return afterwards for one low pass. In the #2 position here is 3-6052 (٣-۶۰۵۲, BuNo 160350). Iran's Tomcats were delivered in the 1970s, like its other American equipment still in use.

At the appropriate altitude for a low pass. About a dozen of the Persian Cats were said to be still operational. Noted for the first time in public here, this was serial 3-891 before.

Persian Cat pulling G's on the first day of flying during the 2018 Iran Airshow. The encircled ٨ on the tail indicates its home base is Esfahãn, the 8th Tactical Air Base of the IRIAF.

In 2005, I pictured my last operational F-14s (VF-31 and VF-213) on board the USS Theodore Roosevelt in the Arabian Sea/ Persian Gulf. Never ever expected that I was given the opportunity to see my all time favorite aircraft operational again, but thirteen years later it happened! Persian Cats in the air, after my camera shutter clicks at Kish, I made a deep bow for them, awesome!

Persian Cat !