#f-4j phantom

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Fifty years ago, the F-4J Phantom with serial number 153088 was painted in the bicentennial commemorative colors in 1976.

July 4, 2026, Happy 250th Birthday, America!🇺🇸

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CAG bird of VF-114 "Aardvarks" in flight

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#Nutrients You Can Only Get from Rolling F-4J WT09 July 1977 Kadena Base

These photos I posted like a red ogre 😅

Went all the way over to the other side (Air Force side) to make the engine go vroom vroom, so I went full throttle—pretty wild, right? 😆

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US Navy F-4J Phantom from VF-74 ready on the cat 3 on board USS Nimitz CVN-68 in 1976. You can see the launch bridle attached underneath the Phantom

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Carrier Air Wing 8 operations before transitioning to the legendary F-14 Tomcat. Fighter Squadron 74 "Bedevilers" would end up being transferred to Carrier Air Wing 17 aboard USS Forrestal (CV-59).

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SR-71 and F-4J VX-4 over Nevada Desert 🏜️

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McDonnell Douglas F-4J Phantom II, BUNO 153777, Tail Code AA, Modex 200, US Navy, VF-74 Be-Devilers, aboard USS Nimitz (Mediterranean port), 1975, Photo from Jonathan Verschuuren Collection

**Fabulous Phantom Friday!** Check out this totally bodacious F-4J Phantom II from VF-74 Be-Devilers aboard USS Nimitz in 1975! Still wearing USS Forrestal titles during the new carrier’s maiden cruise — a true piece of Phantom transition history.

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US Navy F-4J Phantom 158360 VX-4 "Evaluators".

Aug 1979

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McDonnell Douglas F-4J Phantom II, BUNO 153081, Modex 5, US Navy Blue Angels, Houma - Terrebonne (KHUM), Louisiana, April 20 1969, Photo by Bob Thomas

**Fabulous Phantom Friday!** Check out this totally bodacious Blue Angels F-4J Phantom II (slot 5) at the Houma Jaycee Airshow in April 1969 — the historic first year the team flew the Phantom!

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