CAN SOMEONE SAVE HER? (F-4 Phantom)

[Vulture]

This is so sad.....

http://cgi.ebay.com/ebaymotors/20K-lbs-wrecked-F-4-aircraft-Scrap-Titainium-Aluminum_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQcategoryZ26439QQihZ007QQitemZ170082903806QQrdZ1

[PhantomAce08]

I'm checking it out, it looks pretty beat up

MAPS would love to have an F-4 Cockpit though!

[cott]

Thanks for posting this. Very interesting, and affordable. I assume (?) that it would not be permitted to fly again, even if it could?


CO

[rwdfresno]

It looks like it would be a good candidate for a cockpit collectors.

[Shay]

This is the F-4 that was at WPAFB DRMO a little while back. Me and Uwe from http://www.5053phantoms.com have been trying to track down it's serial number. I was going to talk to the DRMO people and then it vanished. Obiviously this guy bought it. I wonder what he paid vs. what he's asking for it. For years it was used for Aircraft Battle Damage Repair.

I'm going to email him to see if he knows the serial. Maybe take a trip.

Shay
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[PhantomAce08]

I'm going to at least try and make a trip as well and take more pictures of it. For me, it will only be about a 20 minute drive!

[Shay]

And the Answer is:

F-4C-18-MC, Ser. No. 63-7478

listed as later being modified as EF-4C Wild Weasel flak suppression aircraft.

The owner claims he can't find the serial anywhere but says that the #'s "747" are still on the tail.

Two F-4s were listed as ABDR at Wright-Patt....... 63-7478 and 64-0724.

Seems like easy math but would be nice to see the data plate in the cockpit anyways.

Uwe and I thought after looking at pictures back and forth that the camoflage patterns actually matched 0724 better. It could be that the fuselage maybe from 0724 and the tail from 7478. But it could be 7478

Shay
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[Vulture]

Glad people are interested ... I remember seeing an F-4 post a while back that looked like it went through the grinder .... did not want to see that again. She would look good on a trailer goign to airshows taking pics with T Birds on one side and Blues on the other

V

[Kudzu]

Quick work by the scrap guy, according to this the auction did not end until yesterday! But the pictures on ebay shown the remains somewhere else. To bad OH is so far from me, it would be a cool addtion to my collection. Or Gary's

Better pictures too at this link!
http://cgi.govliquidation.com/auction/view?id=916749

[retroaviation]

I was waiting for someone to mention that airplane at my place.

I'd love to have been able to save it (even though it uses the wrong kind of round engines), but I simply don't have the funds for it right now. I hope someone else does the right thing with it though.

Gary

[Shay]

Quick work by the scrap guy, according to this the auction did not end until yesterday! But the pictures on ebay shown the remains somewhere else. To bad OH is so far from me, it would be a cool addtion to my collection. Or Gary's

Better pictures too at this link!
http://cgi.govliquidation.com/auction/view?id=916749

That's wierd I guess. That F-4 has been missing from the DRMO yard for several months now.

Perhaps the guy who has bid on Ebay for it is going to save her. His history of bid shows him bidding on a lot of Military stuff. I hope he does.

Suppose I could ask him.

Shay
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[PhantomAce08]

I emailed him and I think my brother and I are going to check it out and take some pictures in the next couple of days.

[Shay]

I emailed him and I think my brother and I are going to check it out and take some pictures in the next couple of days.

You may already know this but look for the ID plate in the cockpit. I think maybe behind the arrestor hook handle like of the "E" models, but if not should be somewhere in there.

The guy said he couldn't find a Serial so maybe the plate is removed as part of the Demil process(?)


Best of luck

Shay
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[oscardeuce]

The guy said he couldn't find a Serial so maybe the plate is removed as part of the Demil process

I would think, no plate no registration. no registration no fly.

[Shay]

Looks like he lost his one and only bidder.

I wonder why he backed out?

Shay
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