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ID 55760 Views: 437 Photo Comments: 0	Airline / Aircraft Type	Location and Date	Photographer
	USA - Air Force McDonnell Douglas QF-4E Phantom II	Alamogordo - Holloman Air Force Base (HMN/KHMN) USA - New Mexico, October 17, 2015	E. Jones Contact
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	74-1626 / AF309 (cn 4856) 74-1626, pictured with 72-0167/AF353 & 74-1043/AF338 (cn 4825), was based with the 53rd Weapons Evaluation Group, Tyndall AFB, FL. It met its demise on 8 Jul 2016 when it was destroyed by a Raytheon Patriot integrated air and missile defense system.

ID 55759 Views: 397 Photo Comments: 0	Airline / Aircraft Type	Location and Date	Photographer
	USA - Air Force McDonnell Douglas QF-4E Phantom II	Alamogordo - Holloman Air Force Base (HMN/KHMN) USA - New Mexico, October 17, 2015	E. Jones Contact
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	74-0643 / AF351 (cn 4794) Detachment 1, 82nd Aerial Target Squadron.

ID 55758 Views: 392 Photo Comments: 0	Airline / Aircraft Type	Location and Date	Photographer
	USA - Air Force McDonnell Douglas QF-4E Phantom II	Alamogordo - Holloman Air Force Base (HMN/KHMN) USA - New Mexico, October 17, 2015	E. Jones Contact
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	73-1181 / AF328 (cn 4729) Detachment 1, 82nd Aerial Target Squadron

ID 55757 Views: 398 Photo Comments: 0	Airline / Aircraft Type	Location and Date	Photographer
	USA - Air Force McDonnell Douglas QF-4E Phantom II	Alamogordo - Holloman Air Force Base (HMN/KHMN) USA - New Mexico, October 17, 2015	E. Jones Contact
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	72-0167 / AF353 (cn 4386) This set of McDonnell Douglas QF-4E Phantom II photos taken in October 2015 was likely my first and last close-up look of the QF-4. The QF-4 was officially retired following ceremonial flight at Holloman AFB, NM on 21 December 2016. Over 300 F-4 Phantom II's were regenerated from the Air Force "Boneyard" at Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ, and used as full-scale aerial targets (FSATs) aka-“drones”-at Tyndall AFB, FL and Holloman AFB. The drones were operated by Detachment 1, 82nd Aerial Target Squadron at Holloman AFB, which is part of the 53rd Weapons Evaluation Group, based at Tyndall Air Force Base, FL, and the only full-scale aerial target units in the DOD. Remaining QF-4s at Holloman AFB will be stripped and towed to the White Sands Missile Range for use as ground targets. The QF-16 is replacing the QF-4. This also means the end of an era of QF-4 Heritage Flights we all enjoyed.

ID 52595 Views: 364 Photo Comments: 0	Airline / Aircraft Type	Location and Date	Photographer
	Private DeHavilland DH-83 C Fox Moth	Perth - Langley Park Airstrip (None) Australia, October 17, 2015	Bill Mallinson Contact
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	VH-USJ (cn 4058)

ID 52573 Views: 320 Photo Comments: 0	Airline / Aircraft Type	Location and Date	Photographer
	Private North American AT-6D Texan	Perth - Langley Park Airstrip (None) Australia, October 17, 2015	Bill Mallinson Contact
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	VH-WWA (cn 78-7094)

ID 52572 Views: 336 Photo Comments: 0	Airline / Aircraft Type	Location and Date	Photographer
	Private North American AT-6D Texan	Perth - Langley Park Airstrip (None) Australia, October 17, 2015	Bill Mallinson Contact
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	VH-WWA (cn 78-7094)

ID 52074 Views: 492 Photo Comments: 0	Airline / Aircraft Type	Location and Date	Photographer
	United Airlines Boeing 767-424 ER	Cleveland - Hopkins International (CLE/KCLE) USA - Ohio, October 17, 2015	Sam Legarth Contact
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	N78060 (cn 29455)

ID 52073 Views: 430 Photo Comments: 0	Airline / Aircraft Type	Location and Date	Photographer
	United Airlines Boeing 767-424 ER	Cleveland - Hopkins International (CLE/KCLE) USA - Ohio, October 17, 2015	Sam Legarth Contact
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	N78060 (cn 29455) Denver Broncos charter