According to a recent defence paper even the D-model will get an early retirement aswell
DEFENSE DAILY 16 JUN 04
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> Tomcat Transition To Super Hornet Complete By Fall '06, Admiral Says
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> By Lorenzo Cortes
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> The Navy will successfully retire the remainder of its Northrop Grumman [NOC]
> F-14 Tomcat fleet in fall 2006 thanks to an accelerated schedule that also
> includes introducing Boeing [bA] F/A-18E/F Super Hornet fighter-bombers
> earlier, according to the Atlantic Fleet's air forces chief.
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> "One of the things that we have been able to do as a result of some good
> production with our industry partners with the success of the multiyear with
> the E and F is we were able to look at and make a decision to accelerate the
> transition of the last of the F-14 squadrons to the F/A-18E/F," Rear Adm. Jim
> Zortman, commander of Naval Air Forces Atlantic, said last week during the
> Association of Naval Aviation's 2004 convention in Vienna, Va. "That is taking
> place right now,
> and by fall of '06, we will have made that transition. ...