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

Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 150442.

Redesignated as F-4B-13-MC.

Converted to a F-4N.

From By 2 February 1976 to After 2 August 1976

Transferred to VF-302 (Fighting Stallions).

In the inventory of National Naval Aviation Museum-Loan Program, NAS Pensacola, Pensacola, FL.
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Loaned to American Military Heritage Foundation Museum, Saint John the Baptist Peri Airport, Reserve, LA.
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Circa 31 March 2014

Loaned to Alexandria, LA.
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Markings Applied: 210, USS AMERICA, 0442 VF-142 NAVY, AJ, 10
Finished in the markings of U.S. Navy fleet Fighter Squadron VF-142, the Ghostriders.

7 April 2014

Photographer: J. Kindler
Notes: At exit 19 on I-12 (Satsuma, LA). Moved to this site about a week before picture was taken.

James Olson comments (4 January 2016): Having seen this aircraft on display off the south side of U.S. I-12 a few months back, I saw that it was painted in the colors of my first U.S. Navy fleet squadron, the Ghostriders of Fighter Squadron VF-142. I then looked in my flight logbooks and found that I had flown this very aircraft on five occasions, but in a later squadron, the Fighting Stallions of VF-302. The dates of those flights, all in 1976, were as follows: 12 February (1.6 hrs.); 5 May (0.9 hrs.); 7 May (1.0 hrs.); 10 June (1.7 hrs.); and 2 August (1.7 hrs.) It was very satisfying to pat the nose of an old aerial warhorse I had once flown. The F-4 Phantom II was a great fighter that always brought me safely home in the course of over 3,000 flight hours and 300+ missions in the Vietnam War. Signed, J.D. Olson, callsign Outlaw.

12 November 2015

Photographer: James Warren

12 November 2015

Photographer: James Warren

12 November 2015

Photographer: James Warren