F-4S Phantom II “Black Bunny” Placed on Display at Castle Air Museum

At Vintage Aviation News, we have been covering the restoration efforts of the Castle Air Museum in Atwater, CA in restoring a McDonnell F-4S Phantom II known as the “Black Bunny”, which was famously flown by Air Test and Evaluation Squadron Four (VX-4), better known as “The Evaluators” during the 1980s at NAS Point Mugu, CA. The aircraft sat for over 30 years at the Boneyard at Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, AZ, before it was trucked into Atwater. On May 24, after nearly two years of restoration work, F-4S Phantom II “Black Bunny” BuNo 155539 was officially rolled out of the Castle Air Museum’s restoration…..

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