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    Airframe Family: McDonnell F-4 Phantom II
    Latest Model:Phantom FG.1
    Last Military Serial:XV586 RAF
    Construction Number:3317/9340
    Compressed ID:McDonnell Phantom FG.1 sn XV586 RAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Morayvia Sci-Tech Experience Project, RAF Kinloss, Kinloss, Moray, Scotland

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a Phantom FG.1.

    April 1969

    First flight.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Air Force with s/n XV586.

    17 September 1988

    Transferred to 43 Squadron.

    17 September 1988


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Phantom FG.1 of 43 Squadron in the static park at the 1988 RAF Leuchars Airshow.

    New serial number assigned: 9067M RAF

    To RAF Leuchars, Fife, Fife, Scotland.
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    14 September 1996


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: Phantom FG.1 formerly of 43 Squadron on display at the 1996 RAF Leuchars Airshow where it served as a decoy.

    16 May 2012

    To RNAS Yeovilton (north side), Yeovilton, Somerset, England.
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    24 October 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At the Fleet Air Arm Museum at Yeovilton, UK

    By 2014

    Markings Applied: 010, R
    In the markings of 892 NAS, HMS Ark Royal.

    25 July 2014


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton Airshow photoshoot

    25 July 2014


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    13 July 2019


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at RNAS Yeovilton Airshow

    February 2023

    To Morayvia Sci-Tech Experience Project, RAF Kinloss, Kinloss, Moray, Scotland.
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     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    UK Serials Resource Centre by Wolverhampton Aviation Group
    Individual Contributors
     Andrew Appleton
    Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols
    Peter Nicholson
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