While it appears from the list below that there are still a respectable number of surviving examples of the UK Phantom, note how many are gate guards or similar at RAF stations or other military establishments. In fact the Phantom force has suffered badly in that their disposal was intended to be by scrapping only, and not by disposal to civilians (including museums). A tiny number have managed to escape into civilian hands regardless, even with MoD efforts to put a stop to some sales after they had gone through! A mass cull of many remaining airframes in MoD hands was threatened in 2000 but stopped at the eleventh hour; since then, however, a number of airframes have been scrapped anyway. This has mostly been due to the establishments they were at being closed, or inspections finding excessive corrosion and upcoming structural failure. The reasons why the airframes have not been allowed to be sold in the usual manner are many but seem to have their basis in the terms of the original sale agreement and the American's wish that no Phantom spares make their way to any unfriendly nations still operating the type!
This particular survivors list is restricted to examples flown by the RAF and Royal Navy, or non-RAF/RN examples where the surviving examples are physically located in the UK now (a handful of airframes).
Serial | Mark | Owner & location | Updated |
63-7414 | F-4C | Midland Air Museum (dismantled, spares use), Coventry Airport, Warwickshire | 11/01/2012 |
63-7699 | F-4C | Midland Air Museum, Coventry Airport, Warwickshire | 11/01/2012 |
'65-777' (really 63-7419) | F-4C | RAF Lakenheath (displayed in the memorial park within the station), Suffolk | 03/2005 |
Serial | Mark | Owner & location | Updated |
155848 | F-4S | National Museum of Flight, East Fortune, Scotland | 28/08/2001 |
Serial | Mark | Owner & location | Updated |
XT596 | FG.1 | Fleet Air Arm Museum, RNAS Yeovilton, Somerset | 11/01/2012 |
XT597 | FG.1 | Everett Aero?, MoD Boscombe Down, Wiltshire | 19/05/2013 |
XT864 | FG.1 | RAF Leuchars (gate guard), Fife, Scotland | 11/01/2012 |
XV582 | FG.1 | RAF Leuchars (displayed within the station), Fife, Scotland | 11/01/2012 |
XV586 | FG.1 | RNAS Yeovilton (stored), Somerset | 16/05/2012 |
Serial | Mark | Owner & location | Updated |
XT891 | FGR.2 | RAF Coningsby (gate guard), Lincolnshire | 2001 |
XT899 | FGR.2 | Aviation Museum, Kbely, Czech Republic | 11/01/2012 |
XT905 | FGR.2 | Everett Aero, Bentwaters airfield, Sussex | 19/05/2013 |
XT907 | FGR.2 | Defence Explosives Ordnance Disposal School, Chattenden, Kent | |
XT914 | FGR.2 | Wattisham Heritage Museum, Wattisham Camp, Suffolk | 08/03/2012 |
XV401 | FGR.2 | Everett Aero?, MoD Boscombe Down, Wiltshire | 19/05/2013 |
XV406 | FGR.2 | Solway Aviation Museum, Carlise Airport, Cumbria | 06/09/2012 |
XV408 | FGR.2 | Tangmere Military Aviation Museum, Tangmere, West Sussex | 11/01/2012 |
XV411 | FGR.2 | Defence Fire Training and Development Centre, Manston Airport, Kent | 11/01/2012 |
XV415 | FGR.2 | RAF Boulmer (gate guard), Northumberland | |
XV424 | FGR.2 | RAF Museum, Hendon, Greater London | 11/01/2012 |
XV470 | FGR.2 | RAF Akrotiri (BDRT), Cyprus | 12/01/2012 |
XV474 | FGR.2 | Imperial War Museum, Duxford, Cambridgeshire | 11/01/2012 |
XV497 | FGR.2 | Everett Aero, Bentwaters airfield, Sussex | 08/05/2013 |
Serial | Mark | Owner & location | Updated |
155529 (ex ZE359) | F.3 | American Air Museum, IWM Duxford, Cambrideshire | 17/04/2005 |
ZE360 (ex 155574) | F.3 | Defence Fire Training and Development Centre, Manston Airport, Kent | 11/01/2012 |
Serial | Mark | Owner & location | Updated |
XT595 | FG.1 | Location and status unknown - possibly scrapped | 11/01/2012 |
XT863 | FG.1 | Cliftongrade Ltd. (gate guard), Cowes, Isle of Wight | 2002 |
XV581 | FG.1 | ATC Aberdeen Wing, Bridge of Don Barracks, Aberdeen, Grampian, Scotland | |
XV591 | FG.1 | RAF Museum Cosford, Shropshire | 11/01/2012 |
Serial | Mark | Owner & location | Updated |
DB001 | FGR.2 | Newark Air Museum (simulator), Winthorpe, Nottinghamshire | 11/01/2012 |
XT903 | FGR.2 | RAF Wyton (nose, stored), Cambridgeshire | |
XT903 | FGR.2 | RAF Museum Cosford (stored), Shropshire | 11/01/2012 |
XV399 | FGR.2 | Privately owned, Vik area, Aust-Agder, Norway | 11/01/2012 |
XV402 | FGR.2 | Didier Lafaut (nose section, stored), Izegem, Belgium | 23/06/2004 |
XV409 | FGR.2 | RAF Mount Pleasant (nose, remainder scrapped Jan 2012), Falkland Islands | 19/01/2012 |
XV419 | FGR.2 | Terrington Aviation Collection, Terrington St. Clement, Norfolk | |
XV426 | FGR.2 | Mick Jennings, City of Norwich Aviation Museum, Horsham St. Faith, Norfolk | 11/01/2012 |
XV460 | FGR.2 | Everett Aero, Bentwaters airfield, Sussex | |
XV467 | FGR.2 | ATC, Oban, Western Isles, Scotland | |
XV489 | FGR.2 | Privately owned, Germany | 11/01/2012 |
XV490 | FGR.2 | Phantom Preservation Society, Newark Air Museum, Winthorpe, Nottinghamshire | 11/11/2014 |
XV499 | FGR.2 | Privately owned, Bruntingthorpe Aerodrome, Leicestershire | 24/11/2016 |
Serial | Mark | Owner & location | Updated |
Not known | F.3 | Yorkshire Flight Centre (simulator), Arkendale, Knaresborough, Yorkshire | |
ZE350 (ex 153768) | F.3 | Privately owned, Royal Tunbridge Wells Area | 11/01/2012 |
ZE352 (ex 153783) | F.3 | Privately owned, Hooton Park, Merseyside |