A U.S. Navy McDonnell F-4G <i>Phantom II</i> (BuNo 150489) landing aboard an aircraft carrier. 150489 was used for test aboard USS <i>America</i> (CVA-66) in 1967. Of the 13 aircraft converted from F-4B to F-4G, two planes (150489 and 150625) were sent to the Naval Air Test Center at Patuxent River, Maryland (USA) for testing of the automatic carrier landing system in early 1963. 150489 was converted back to an F-4B in December 1969, and modified to an F-4N in 1974. It was finally retired on 27 August 1982.
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between 1963 and 1967 <div style="display: none;">date QS:P,+1963-00-00T00:00:00Z/8,P1319,+1963-00-00T00:00:00Z/9,P1326,+1967-00-00T00:00:00Z/9</div>
<a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.navy.mil/ah_online/department_arch.html">U.S. Navy All Hands magazine</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.navy.mil/ah_online/archpdf/ah196705.pdf">May 1967</a>, p. 62.