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    Airframe Family: McDonnell F-4 Phantom II
    Latest Model:Phantom FGR.2
    Last Military Serial:XT899 RAF
    Construction Number:2507
    Latest Owner or Location:Letecke Muzeum (Aviation Museum of the Military Historical Institute), Kbely, Praha (Prague), Prague

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-4M.

    8 May 1968

    First flight.

    8 December 1968

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XT899.
    The delivery date is provided.

    Converted to a Phantom FGR.2.

    By 1991

    Transferred to No. 19 Squadron.

    20 July 1991


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Phantom FGR.2 of 19 Squadron at the 1991 Internationl Air Tattoo at RAF Fairford, Gloucestershire

    7 September 1991


    Photographer: Unknown

    16 January 1992

    Ferry flight. Delivered to Letecke Muzeum (Aviation Museum of the Military Historical Institute), Kbely, Praha (Prague), Prague.
    The airframe was delivered to the museum on this date with a ferry flight. This was the last flight of this airframe.
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    Markings Applied: B

    22 July 2007


    Photographer: Han de Ridder

    22 July 2007


    Photographer: Han de Ridder

    24 May 2019


    Photographer: Marcin Rogowski
    Notes: At the Kbely Aviation Museum in Prague, Czech Republic.
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     European Military Out of Service 2007 by Otger van der Kooij and Andy Marden
    F-4 Phantom II Production and Operational Data by William R Peake
    Internet Sources
     Euro Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Individual Contributors
     Mike Henniger
    Max Sabin
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