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Code	Make	Description	Price
HA1965	Corgi	F-4N Phantom II - VF-161 Chargers, US Navy 1977 (1,000)	£
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	HA1965 is this McDonnell Douglas F-4N Phantom 11 of VF-161 "CHARGERS", CAG Bird of CVW-5, based on the carrier USS Midway in 1977. Very low production run of only 1,000 models, of which only a few were imported to the UK. Fighter Squadron One Six One VF-161 “Chargers” was formed during WWII. On February 1,1971 the squadron was assigned to the USS Midway and CVW-5 for the first time. In the summer of 1977 VF-161 traded their F-4N for the F-4J variant. Once the F-4Ns were replaced most of them were sent to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG) at Davis Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Arizona, including BuNo. 151433 c/n 425. The aircraft originally was an F-4B and converted to an F-4N and was the CAG aircraft in 1977 when the F-4Ns were replaced. 151433 was wfu (withdrawn from use) on October 20, 1977 and was stored at AMARG as AN 8F072 until 1993 when it was finally scrapped. One of the most famous and easily recognized fighter aircraft of the post-WWII era was the McDonnell F-4 Phantom II. This aircraft was developed as a private venture by the aircraft company but was soon ordered by the USN as a carrier-based attack aircraft. Its first flight took place on May 27, 1958 and it entered active service in December 1960. It wasn’t long after the F-4B appeared that a fly-off was set up with USAF front-line fighters. It was no contest, the F-4 performed so well that the USAF ordered their own variant, the F-4C. As time went on, the F-4 evolved into well over a dozen variants.

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