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    Airframe Family: McDonnell F-4 Phantom II
    Latest Model:YF-4J Phantom II
    Last Military Serial:151497 USN
    Construction Number:0655
    Latest Owner or Location:Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    1964

    Constructed as a F-4B-19-MC by McDonnell at Saint Louis, Missouri, USA.

    17 September 1964

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 151497.

    September 1964

    Converted to a YF-4J.

    16 January 1975

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 8F0033.

    October 1982

    To Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
    On loan from US National Museum of Naval Aviation.
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    By 1991

    Markings Applied: 7, NAVY, 1497, 151497, NATF 7
    In the markings of Naval Air Test Facility, Lakehurst Naval Air Station, New Jersey, 1974.

    11 August 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    Circa 1996


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At The Pima Air and Space Museum, Arizona.

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    9 March 2014

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    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Johnny Comstedt
    Mike Henniger
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