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A few years ago I was getting my FAA physical, the doctor’s practice is exclusively aviation medicine as he was a Marine flight surgeon. As one would expect the walls of his office are covered with airplane pics. There was a picture of an F-4E on the wall I had seen many times before, only an 8×10 and actually it’s a drawing. It was in the post Vietnam gray camo paint scheme so I never really looked close at it until on that day I noticed the tail number, 515. I had flown that airplane at Korat and later saw it sitting on the ramp at Fort Wayne in the Indiana ANG after it had the slat conversion. I always remember that airplane because it was one of two replacement airplanes that had a tail number a lot newer than all the others that ran from about 275-396. It also had a hydraulic mod only one other plane had.
As I approach retirement it dawned on my that only three airplanes I have flown for pay are still around, and the 747-400 is on the way out. The T-38 is still around although as you know highly modified. The only plane still in production is the A-320. The Metro 2, CV-580, DC-9, 727 and DC-10 are gone, the MD-82s are being scrapped, of course the T-37, F-4 and OV-10s are all history as well.
Guess it’s about time for me to go to the scrap heap as well!