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Constructed as a F-4J-41-MC by McDonnell at Saint Louis, Missouri, USA.

Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 157267.

By October 1971

Transferred to VF-96 Fighting Falcons aboard USS Constellation.

19 January 1972

While piloting this fighter, Lt Randall H. Cunningham and his RIO Lt William P. Driscoll shot down North Vietnamese MiG-21.

8 May 1972

While piloting this fighter, Lt Randall H. Cunningham and his RIO Lt William P. Driscoll shot down North Vietnamese MiG-17.

After 1975

Converted to a F-4S.

By March 1984

Transferred to VMFA-122, MCAS Beaufort, SC.
Operated with markings: DC-1

1990

To San Diego Air and Space Museum, Balboa Park, San Diego, CA.
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Circa 1990

Photographer: Cory Crowell
Notes: Lowering the F-4 by crane onto its display pole in the courtyard of the (then) San Diego Aerospace Museum. Lift was done late at night, after the San Diego International Airport was closed, as the top of the crane encroached into the landing path of airliners.

8 September 1991

Photographer: Robert Nichols
Notes: before the roof was put in place

31 May 2013

Photographer: Terry Fletcher
Notes: Exhibited at San Diego Air and Space Museum, California

July 2014

Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla