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PostPosted: Tue Oct 04, 2016 4:15 pm 
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Would greatly appreciate any help on the status of AF F4 37654 & 37743, which were assigned to Systems Command at Edwards AFB in the mid to late 1960s. I worked on both of these and got a ride in 654 in 1967.


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PostPosted: Tue Oct 04, 2016 6:09 pm 
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63-7654 is on display at Sumner County Regional Airport in Gallatin, TN.

http://www.aerialvisuals.ca/AirframeDos ... rial=69090

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PostPosted: Tue Oct 04, 2016 7:48 pm 
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Nathan Decker wrote:
F-4C-20-MC s/n 63-7654
*Converted to NF-4C.
*1973: AFFTC.
*AFSC.
*AFSWC.
*1981: AFFTC.
*1988: AFFTC.
*1989-90: USAF 6512th TS.
*3/1992: Put into storage at the AMARC bone yard.
*Currently preserved in Gallatin, TN.
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RF-4C-18-MC s/n 63-7743
*AFFTC.
*AFSC.
*USAF 4490th TG.
*Converted to RF-4E prototype.
*6/25/1975: Written off.
*Converted to NRF-4C.
*Converted to GRF-4E.
*Assigned as a ground trainer to Sheppard AFB, TX.
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PostPosted: Tue Oct 04, 2016 8:32 pm 
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My thanks to you both.

If you look at the photo of 743, you can make out the Systems Command logo just above the letter A.

I had forgotten to add in my original post that the 3rd F4 that we had at Edwards was 409, reputed to be one of the very first Phantoms.
She was a bit of a hangar queen and flew the least of the 3.

Again, my thanks.


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