McDonnell-Douglas/BAC F-4K/M Phantom II - Survivor 155848
F-4S 155848 - National Museum of Flight (stored), East Fortune, Scotland
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Phantom F-4S 155848 at National Museum of Flight, 14th July 2025; Rob Chapman
155848 first flew in 1968 as an F-4J and flew as such with the US Navy before being converted to F-4S standard and transferring to the US Marine Corps in 1978. In 1983 she was retired and the Fleet Air Arm Museum acquired her not long afterwards in a strange deal that saw Scimitar XD220 crossing the pond in the opposite direction.
Initially displayed at the museum and occasionally in the annual airshow's static display, when they got hold of FG.1 XT596, this F-4 became surplus to requirements and languished on the airfield for a long time while all and sundry fought over her - it seems there wasn't a museum in the UK that didn't want to get hold of her. Unfortunately, the usual Phantom bureaucrats were meddling, and it looked like she was going to be scrapped until, all of a sudden it seemed, the National Museum of Flight won the battle and she was handed over to them in May 1999.
She wears the colours of the USMC's VMFA 232, and was on external display for some years but unfortunately can't generally be viewed as the aircraft has recently been placed into storage in the museum's restoration hangar. Occasional tours of this hangar are put on, however, so all is not lost. Hopefully her presence in the hangar indicates that she'll be getting some attention.
Initially displayed at the museum and occasionally in the annual airshow's static display, when they got hold of FG.1 XT596, this F-4 became surplus to requirements and languished on the airfield for a long time while all and sundry fought over her - it seems there wasn't a museum in the UK that didn't want to get hold of her. Unfortunately, the usual Phantom bureaucrats were meddling, and it looked like she was going to be scrapped until, all of a sudden it seemed, the National Museum of Flight won the battle and she was handed over to them in May 1999.
She wears the colours of the USMC's VMFA 232, and was on external display for some years but unfortunately can't generally be viewed as the aircraft has recently been placed into storage in the museum's restoration hangar. Occasional tours of this hangar are put on, however, so all is not lost. Hopefully her presence in the hangar indicates that she'll be getting some attention.
Information on this page current as of 23/07/2025, last updated by Damien |
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