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    Airframe Family: McDonnell F-4 Phantom II
    Latest Model:F-4C-16-MC Phantom II
    Last Military Serial:63-7441 USAF
    Construction Number:0403
    Compressed ID:McDonnell F-4C-16-MC sn 63-7441 USA...
    Latest Owner or Location:559th TFS, 12th TFW, Cam Ranh Bay, SVN

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-4C-16-MC by at Saint Louis, Missouri, USA.

    5 December 1963

    First flight.

    6 February 1964

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 63-7441.

    1965

    To 40th Flight Test Squadron, 33rd TFW, Eglin Air Force Base, FL.

    Circa 1967

    Transferred to 433rd TFS, 8th TFW, Ubon RTAFB, Thailand.
    Operated with markings: FG

    Circa 1967


    Photographer: Ken Buchanan Collection

    By January 1969

    Transferred to 559th TFS, 12th TFW, Cam Ranh Bay, SVN.
    Operated with markings: XN

    27 January 1969

    Destroyed in a crash.
    Left runway and hit barrier housing during night takeoff from Cam Ranh Bay, South Vietnam and crashed into several other parked F-4s on Jan 27, 1969. Maj. Robert Came, pilot, and Capt. Thomas Burge, WSO, were killed in the crash. Came played football at the US Naval Academy prior to joining the USAF.

    27 January 1969


    Photographer: Dr. Glenn Thoreson
    Notes: The crashsite of F-4C 63-7441.

    27 January 1969


    Photographer: Dr. Glenn Thoreson
    Notes: The burnt wreckage of 63-7441.
    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     F-4 Phantom II Production and Operational Data by William R Peake
    Tail Code: The Complete History of USAF Tactical Aircraft Tail Code Markings by Patrick Martin
    Internet Sources
     United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Max Sabin
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