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F-4C USAF s/n 63-7408


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Another test support fleet phantom with the 6512th Test Squadron at Edwards AFB.

 

April 1985, aerial refueling from NKC-135E, s/n 55-3135, from the 4950th Test Wing, Aeronautical Systems Division out of Wright-Patterson. In the pre-contact position waiting for the boom operator to clear him in.

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On the boom, in the green, and taking fuel

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May 1985 and she's been misbehaving... roped off and getting maintenance on the Eddie ramp. That notice taped ahead of the forward formation slime light says the aircraft is impounded.

63-7408 6512ts ED KEDW 19850516 13cr

 

Jump to 1988 and, like the rest of the Rhinos, she's gone albino and her designation has been formally changed to NF-4. This image from June 1990.

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September 1990, retired and waiting to go to AMARC. She is one of the fortunate ones, going to the National Museum of the Air Force inventory, eventually ending up on display at Tyndall AFB in Florida.

63-7408 6512ts ED KEDW 19900906 24cr

 

At Tyndall, she's in Southeast Asia camouflage and has an Air Combat Command shield on the tail even though she spent her entire operational life with Air Force Systems Command.

 

Thanks for looking,

Sven

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