Photographed on a personal visit to NAS Oceana. I still like the old type of gull grey over white more than the dull grey overall dirt seeking paintwork. I later learned that this aircraft crashed the day after I photographed it.
No 31Sqd.,based at RAF Brüggen, during recce exercise Royal Flush XVIII.From 1969 to 1975 the F-4 Phantom operated in the strike/attack role and was replaced by the SEPECAT Jaguar.