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    Airframe Family: McDonnell F-4 Phantom II
    Latest Model:F-4C-23-MC Phantom II
    Last Military Serial:64-0748 USAF
    Construction Number:1033
    Latest Owner or Location:Langley AFB, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Hampton, Virginia

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-4C-23-MC by at Saint Louis, Missouri, USA.

    Circa 1964

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 64-0748.

    To 3247th Test Squadron, Eglin AFB, FL.

    Transferred to 35th TFS, 347th TFW, Yokota AB, Japan.
    Operated with markings: WP

    By May 1967

    Transferred to 389th TFS, 366th TFW, Da Nang AB, South Vietnam.
    Operated with markings: AJ

    20 May 1967

    Shot down a VPAF MiG-21 over North Vietnam. On May 20, 1967, the aircraft launched from Da Nang AB armed with four AIM-7 Sparrow and four AIM-9B Sidewinder missiles, a centerline and two wing fuel tanks, and a QRC-160-3 Electronic Countermeasures jamming pod on the right pylon.While flying combat air patrol over North Vietnam, the aircraft commander, Maj. Robert D. Janca and his back-seater Lt. William E. Roberts Jr., spotted a MiG-21. According to Aces and Aerial Victories, Major Janca reported he put the pipper on him, received a good tone, and fired an AIM-9B with the MiG about 4,000 feet ahead, zero angle-off, and framed against the blue sky. The missile guided straight. and detonated...

    1968

    Transferred to 35th TFS, 347th TFW, Yokota AB, Japan.

    Transferred to 44th TFS, 18th TFW, Kadena AB, Okinawa, Japan.
    Operated with markings: ZL

    Transferred to 58th TFTW, Luke AFB, AZ.
    Operated with markings: LA

    From By 1981 to July 1988

    Transferred to 184th TFS, 188th TFG, Arkansas ANG, Fort Smith, AR.
    Operated with markings: FS, City of Fort Smith, Arkansas

    May 1988


    Photographer: Don Spering

    21 July 1988

    Withdrawn from use.

    By 1989

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    By 1989

    Loaned to 314th Airlift Wing, Little Rock AFB, Little Rock, AR.
    On display at Little Rock AFB.
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    By August 2008

    Loaned to Langley AFB, Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Hampton, VA.
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