The second VF-191 was established on the 4th of December 1986 with the Grumman F-14A Tomcat, receiving their first Tomcat on 17 February 1987. This was only temporary, and after maintenance it was transferred it to VF-124. The second VF-191 was put together with a crew hand picked from the F-14 community. The planes were not so top rate. coming from other Tomcat squadrons, with long standing maintenance discrepancies. The squadron not only got every aircraft operational, but consistently met their flight schedules.
Their first permanent aircraft was accepted 1 March 1987, and after a functional check flight, VF-191 became operational on June 1, 1987 when Executive Officer Cmdr. J. R. Davis and Lt. Cmdr. John Hart flew the first official operational sortie. Once commissioned and operational, VF-191 succeeded with every training exercise that were assigned.
TVF-191 was assigned to the newly formed CVW-10, and was scheduled to board USS Independence CV-62 in Virginia and ride it around South America and up to it's new homeport of San Diego. In preparation for that cruise, on 24 July 1987, with only four aircraft, departed Alameda, aboard USS Enterprise CVN-65 for two weeks. In this time, working with F/A-18s and EA-6Bs, they logged 103 Tomcat traps. The cruise lasted two weeks, traveling to Seattle, Washington for the annual SEAFAIR Week in 1987. They performed carrier qualifications and training in transit, spending five days in Seattle, and flying Carrier Air Patrol training on the return journey.
When the decision was made to decommission the airwing, the squardon had a few months to transfer the airplanes and disassemble all that they had built. The squadron personnel were transferred to other Tomcat squadrons. The official decommissioning occured in April 1988, twenty months after the commissioning ceremony. Although VF-191 and it's sister squadron VF-194 were the two shortest lived F-14 squadrons in history, the squadron was finally retired flying a Grumman 'cat capable of dog-fighting!
