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    Airframe Family: McDonnell F-4 Phantom II
    Latest Model:F-4B-7-MC Phantom II
    Last Military Serial:148407 USN
    Construction Number:0092
    Latest Owner or Location:Air Classics Museum, Aurora Municipal Airport, Sugar Grove, Illinois

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F4H-1 by McDonnell at Saint Louis, Missouri, USA.

    30 August 1961

    First flight.

    Circa September 1961

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 148407.

    1961

    Transferred to Fighter Squadron 121 (VF-121), NAS Miramar, CA.
    Operated with markings: NJ/114

    6 July 1962

    Redesignated as F-4B-7-MC.

    Transferred to Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 531 (VMFA-531), MCAS Cherry Point, NC.
    Operated with markings: EC-25

    4 December 1971

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 8F0007.

    5 June 1974

    Transferred to Naval Air Technical Training Center, Memphis, TN.
    Assigned as ground trainer.

    In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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    By April 1997

    Loaned to Air Classics Museum, Aurora Municipal Airport, Sugar Grove, IL.
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    30 September 2000


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At old location on the main ramp of Aurora, IL airport

    30 September 2000


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    26 August 2010


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At new location on the west side of the airport

    26 August 2010


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
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