Hard Deck Bar Hats
Description: You can't go to the Hard Deck, the bar featured in "Top Gun: Maverick," in real life because it doesn't actually exist. The good news is that there's a place both exactly like it and even better at the same time. While former naval aviator Capt. Brian Ferguson was working as a technical adviser for the production of "Top Gun: Maverick," he decided to take the film's director and producers to a real Navy hangout and explain the camaraderie behind sharing a drink and sea stories with other pilots.
Description: A black silhouette of a jet fighter plane is set against a large orange circle. Below the circle, the text "Hard Deck" appears in large, stylized black letters with an orange outline. Beneath this, two horizontal orange lines are present, and to the right of these lines, the word "BAR" is written in smaller orange text.
Description: A silhouetted jet fighter with engine details and stars on its wings is set against a large orange circle, resembling a sunset. Below the circle, the text "The Hard Deck" appears in a script font, followed by "BAR" in bold sans-serif, flanked by orange stripes. The bottom text reads "BREAKERS BEACH". The overall style is retro and bold.
Description: According to David F. Brown’s book Tomcat Alley: A Photographic Roll Call of the Grumman F-14 Tomcat, 160694 was assigned to VF-51 during the making of the movie and received full Top Gun movie markings. The aircraft featured the fictious VF-1 badge, which was actually the insignia for VAW-110, an E-2C Hawkeye squadron based at Naval Air Station (NAS) Miramar. During the movie Top Gun, this Tomcat displayed Lt. Mitchell’s name and callsign plus that of his new RIO, Ltjg. Sam “Merlin” Wells. It was also equipped as a camera ship and shot many of the dramatic air-to-air ACM footage. This Tomcat was stricken on Sep. 26, 1994.
