The F-14 Tomcat Is Coming Back — Here's Why It Took 20 Years
In March of 2026, a senator from Montana introduced a bill nicknamed after a Tom Cruise movie: the Maverick Act. And if it passes, an F-14 Tomcat — a jet the Navy retired twenty years ago — could fly again over the United States for the first time since 2006.
That sentence alone should raise a question. Not whether it's cool, but why now, and why only now? Because for two decades, this exact idea has come up again and again in aviation circles, and every single time, it's gone nowhere. So what changed?
That sentence alone should raise a question. Not whether it's cool, but why now, and why only now? Because for two decades, this exact idea has come up again and again in aviation circles, and every single time, it's gone nowhere. So what changed?
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