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    Airframe Family: McDonnell F-4 Phantom II
    Latest Model:F-4F-54-MC Phantom II
    Last Military Serial:72-1135 Luftwaffe
    Construction Number:4410
    Latest Owner or Location:White Sands Missile Range Museum, White Sands Missile Range, Las Cruces, New Mexico

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-4F-54-MC by McDonnell Douglas at Saint Louis, Missouri, USA.

    Circa 1972

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 72-1135.
    S/n allocated for production administrative purposes under FMS, aircraft did not serve with US forces.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the West German Air Force with s/n 37+25.

    By October 1984

    Transferred to JBG-36, Hopsten, FRG.

    23 October 1984


    Photographer: Lewis Grant
    Notes: 37+25 McDonnell F-4F Phantom West German AF - operated by Jagdbombergeschwader 36, based at Rheine-Hopsten. Landing at Waddington after an Exercise Priory sortie.

    1990

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Luftwaffe with s/n 37+25.

    New serial number assigned: 72-1135 Luftwaffe
    This airframe was owned by the German Air Force and was assigned to the German staffed training squadron at Holloman in New Mexico. They flew in USAF markings but technically they were still Luftwaffe aircraft.

    Transferred to 20th FS, 49th FW, German Training Squadron, Holloman AFB, NM.
    Operated with markings: HO

    To White Sands Missile Range Museum, White Sands Missile Range, Las Cruces, NM.
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    27 May 2018

    27 May 2018

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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
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     Scramble of the Dutch Aviation Society
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     Mike Henniger
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