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    Airframe Family: McDonnell F-4 Phantom II
    Latest Model:Phantom FGR.2
    Last Military Serial:XV497 RAF
    Construction Number:3454
    Latest Owner or Location:Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum, Flixton, Suffolk, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Phantom FGR.2.

    22 September 1969

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XV497.

    By May 1992

    Transferred to 74 SQN, RAF Wattisham.

    23 May 1992


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Mildenhall Air Fete 92

    31 October 1992

    Last flight.
    To RAF Coningsby.

    November 1992

    Transferred to RAF Coningsby.
    As a decoy.

    23 June 2002

    Placed on display with Waddington AB, Lincoln, Lincolnshire/Lincs, England.
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    Circa November 2012

    To Everett Aero, Sproughton.

    November 2012

    Transported by ground.
    To Bentwaters.

    From June 2013 to 2 August 2018

    Loaned to Bentwaters Cold War Museum, Bentwaters Park, Rendlesham, Suffolk, England.
    Returned to private owner.
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    20 July 2014


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Bentwaters, Suffolk, UK

    29 July 2020

    Placed on display with Norfolk and Suffolk Aviation Museum, Flixton, Suffolk, England.
    Exact location at museum not known.
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    unreviewed imported data.
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    Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...

    Internet Sources
    Aerodata Quantum+
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group

    Individual Contributors
    John Bennett
    Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols

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