The Fleet Air Arm Museum

United Kingdom / England / Ilchester /

RNAS Yeovilton Ilchester, Somerset BA22 8HW
United Kingdom
01935 840565
www.fleetairarm.com/

Among the many displays is

Mcdonnel Douglas FG.1 XT596

One of the F-4K prototypes (YF-4K), XT596 first flew on 30th August 1966 and was delivered to the MoD(PE) for trials work. Later she moved to BAe at Holme-on-Spalding Moor and later Scampton, was retired in 1987 and presented to the FAA Museum at Yeovilton, flying into there on 19th January 1988. The oldest UK Phantom now in existence, she's presented as part of a take-off diorama in the Museum's Carrier exhibition
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Coordinates:   51°0'55"N   2°38'8"W
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