) Flying Leathernecks MuseumBy Marc "Devil Dog Of The Web" Iseli / Updated Dec. 2025 The Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum: where Marine aviation history gets more love than a fresh pot of coffee in the ready room. Built by a crew of die-hard staff and volunteers who probably bleed hydraulic fluid, and bankrolled by donors who know a good cause when they see one, this place sits proudly at MCAS Miramar. It's the only museum on the planet that tells the tales of Marine aviators and their ground-pounder sidekicks, because apparently nobody else was brave (or crazy) enough to try. Semper Gumby!! Jay W. Hubbard Air Command Museum Take a walking tour with MSgt. Dave Herbert at MCAS El Toro Museum before it was relocated to Miramar. 
) Havelock Tourist & Event CenterHavelock, NC By Marc "Devil Dog Of The Web" Iseli / Updated Dec. 2025 This is a beautiful facility and would highly recommend a visit to any Marine Veteran and his family. Rf-4B 157349 is beautifully painted in VMCJ-2 colors with the black tail and bunny. It was dedicated summer of 2002 on the base of MCAS Cherry point and placed on display at the Havelock Tourist & Event Center. ) MCAS Cherry Point Officers ClubMCAS Cherry Point, Havelock, NC By Marc "Devil Dog Of The Web" Iseli / Updated Dec. 2025 In 2009 I attended the MCAS Cherry Point Air Show and a MCARA reunion at the Havelock Tourist & Event Center. As I walked on to the Flight Line I was shocked to see a freshly painted RF-4B Phantom as part of the Air Show displays. I was told that the Officers Club was being remodeled and the aircraft was just refurbished and will be placed on display in front of the Officers Club when finished. RF00 157346 was dedicated on base in 2001 and is painted in the VMCJ-2 colors. The tail is black with the famous bunny on the rudder. There is also a squadron insignia of the bunny with the words "Can Do Easy". on the nose landing gear door. ) National Naval Aviation Museum
Pensacola, Florida. By Rich Rentrop / Updated Dec. 2025 In Oct. 2002 RF-4B 157342 was trucked from MCAS Cherry Point, NC to the National Museum of Naval Aviation, Pensacola, Florida and placed on display. For a more detailed account of the process this RF-4B underwent to become a display and much more history of the RF-4B Squadrons Buy Rich Rentrops CD at. RF-4B Phantom II, USMC Tactical Reconnaissance CD ) Naval Museum of Armament & TechnologyChina Lake, CA By Rich Rentrop / Updated Dec. 2025 2005 RF-4B 157348 was pulled from storage at Naval Air Facility, China Lake, California and put on display at the U S Naval Museum of Armament and Technology, China Lake. If anyone has any more information that they would like to share on this display please use the email at the bottom of this page. ) Naval Air FacilityEl Centro, CA By Marc "Devil Dog Of The Web" Iseli / Updated Dec. 2025 RF-4B 151979 that took a barracade trap aboard the USS Midway Jan. 1984 when it's nose landing gear failed to deploy. It was taken out of service and strangly coverted to look like a F-4J Blue Angel Phantom and placed on display in the Blue Angel Park at the Naval Air Facility, El Centro, California.
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