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    Airframe Family: McDonnell F-4 Phantom II
    Latest Model:Phantom FGR.2
    Last Military Serial:XV460 RAF
    Construction Number:3231
    Compressed ID:McDonnell Phantom FGR.2 sn XV460 RA...
    Latest Owner or Location:Bentwaters Cold War Museum, Bentwaters Park, Rendlesham, Suffolk, England

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Phantom FGR.2.

    30 March 1969

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XV460.

    By 1984

    Transferred to 92SQN, RAF Wildenrath FRG.

    By 1984

    Markings Applied: W

    By August 1985

    Transferred to 228 O C U, RAF Coningsby.

    By August 1985

    Markings Applied: G

    3 August 1985


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton Air Show

    By 1988

    Transferred to 92SQN, RAF Wildenrath FRG.

    By 1988

    Markings Applied: N

    31 October 1992

    Last flight.

    7 March 2000

    To North East Land, Sea and Air Museums, Sunderland, Newcastle Upon Tyne, Northumberland, England.
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    16 November 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Outside 2214 sqn ATC - next to North East Air Museum at Washington, UK

    March 2014

    Placed on display with Bentwaters Cold War Museum, Bentwaters Park, Rendlesham, Suffolk, England.
    Only the nose section survives here.
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    20 July 2014


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Bentwaters, Suffolk, UK
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     Military Aircraft Markings by Howard J. Curtis
    Internet Sources
     Aerodata Quantum+
    United Kingdom Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee amp; Wood
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Terry Fletcher
    Robert Nichols
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