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    Airframe Family: McDonnell F-4 Phantom II
    Latest Model:Phantom FGR.2
    Last Military Serial:XV401 RAF
    Construction Number:2885
    Compressed ID:McDonnell Phantom FGR.2 sn XV401 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.

    17 August 1968

    First flight.

    8 November 1968

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XV401.

    By September 1977

    Transferred to 111 Squadron, RAF Leuchars, Fife.
    Operated with markings: U

    By June 1982

    Transferred to 64SQN, 228 OCU, RAF Coningsby.
    Operated with markings: B

    12 June 1982


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Brize Norton Airshow

    23 July 1983


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RAF Greenham Common IAT 83

    Transferred to 29 Squadron, RAF Coningsby.
    Operated with markings: L

    2 August 1984


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: arriving for RNAS Yeovilton Airshow

    2 August 1984


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    By 1990

    Transferred to 228 OCU.
    Operated with markings: CN

    24 April 1990


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Phantom FGR.2 of 228 Operational Conversion Unit landing at RAF Leuchars in April 1990.

    To Boscombe Down Museum, RAF Boscombe Down, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England.
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    To Boscombe Down Museum, Old Sarum Airfield, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England.
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    November 2013

    To Bentwaters Cold War Museum, Bentwaters Park, Rendlesham, Suffolk, England.
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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...
    Internet Sources
     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Aerodata Quantum+
    United Kingdom Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee amp; Wood
    Individual Contributors
     John Bennett
    Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols
    Peter Nicholson
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