McDonnell Douglas F-4K Phantom FG1, XT597 / 1611, A.& A.E.E.
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Registration: XT597
Construction Number: 1611
Model McDonnell Douglas F-4K Phantom FG1
Operator: A.& A.E.E.
Airport: Boscombe Down (EGD / EGDM), UK - England
Airshow: Boscombe Down - Air Tournament International - 1992
Photographer: Martin Laycock
Date Taken: 13/06/1992
Date Submitted: 07/03/2010
Photographed in the static display during Air Tournament International 92 at Boscombe. This colourful F-4 flew for the first time on the 1st November 1966. She spent her entire career as a trials aircraft, conducting the initial carrier suitability trials aboard the USS Coral Sea, after these were completed from 1974 onwards she became a laboratory aircraft being fitted with a long nose probe. She was used for high speed chase and calibration duties before her retirement in 1994. She is now preserved at the Boscombe Down Museum.
Picture ID:1218886