RVAH-14 was initially established on 1 February 1968 at Naval Air Station Sanford, Florida in order to accommodate the impending commissioning of the USS John F. Kennedy, the latter of which was scheduled for 7 September 1968.

The squadron's emblem was created by cartoonist Roy Crane, the creator of the Buz Sawyer comic strip.

RVAH-14's overseas deployments were as follows: With the end of the Vietnam War, budgetary pressures and force reductions forced the Department of Defense to once again close several stateside air bases, to include the closure of Naval Air Station Albany, Georgia.

As a result, Reconnaissance Attack Wing One and all RVAH squadrons were slated to relocate to Naval Air Station Key West, Florida.

However, attrition of airframes and the increasing maintenance and flight hour costs of the RA-5C in a constrained defense budget environment also forced the Navy to incrementally retire the RA-5C and sunset the RVAH community beginning in mid-1974.