... of this McDonnell Douglas-build fighter jet in the Land of the Rising Sun.
JASDF Phantoms - a brief summary
During high times in the 1980s nearly 150 F-4 Phantom IIs were in service with the Japanese ...
... the Japanese airspace. 154 airframes were in service, 96 out of them were upgraded to the F-4EJ Kai standard at the end of the 1980s. Nowadays their main task of air superiority has been overtaken by the ...
... Kunovice and subsequently preserved at the well-known museum in Prague-Kbely.
This particular C-11 OK-JZE (serial nr.: 171511) was one of the last aircraft produced in 1955 and chosen in the 1980s to ...
... destroyed 5 years later during the Israel invasion of the country. In the 1980s both runways were refurbished as well, but at the end of the war in 1990 the airport was at the end of it's tether and with ...
