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title: "You Can Now Buy Your Very Own F-4 Phantom For A Total Steal"
date: "2018-03-16"
modified: "2018-03-16"
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  - name: "James Clark"
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# You Can Now Buy Your Very Own F-4 Phantom For A Total Steal

![](<https://taskandpurpose.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/02/18987438-1.png>)

Do you have dreams of[ buzzing the control tower after a day of barrel-rolling and air-to-air training against those goons on the red team, and then hopping on your hog and cruising to the beach so you can douse yourself in tanning oil and play a spirited game of volleyball — while maintaining eye contact with your buddies for far too long?](<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyAn3fSs8_A>)

Now, you can make those dreams a reality thanks to the folks over at [Platinum Fighters](<https://www.platinumfighters.com/phantom2>): For a cool $4 million, they’ll sell you your very own F-4 Phantom II.

The Phantom McDonnell Douglas F4H-1F Phantom II Bu.145310 — a pre-production variant and the 11th one produced before the plane was ultimately re-designated the F-4 in September 1962 — is on sale for $3.95 million, Warbirds News [reported ](<https://warbirdsnews.com/uncategorized/sageburner-mcdonnell-f4h-1f-phantom-ii-for-sale.html>)March 14. Just 45 F4H-1F Phantoms were ever built using an earlier version of the J-79 turbojet featured in the widely-produced F-4s that first took the skies in 1959. And while this war plane isn’t fully operational, it’s pretty damn close to being flight ready, [according to](<https://www.twz.com/19325/this-could-be-your-only-chance-to-buy-a-flyable-phantom-fighter-jet?xid=twittershare>) The War Zone.

Related: You Can Now Buy A Fleet Of Humvees At $7,000 A Pop »

If you’ve got the cash, why not splurge on the aircraft that was also the first in the F-4 family to be outfitted with hard points to carry bombs — and, as Warbirds News [notes](<https://warbirdsnews.com/uncategorized/sageburner-mcdonnell-f4h-1f-phantom-ii-for-sale.html>), subsequently helped convince the U.S. military that the warplane could function as both a tactical fighter and bomber. It just needs a little work to upgrade its engines, active its ejection seats, and tinker with its avionics.

So if you’ve got a couple million lying around, be prepared to drop a few more — and that’s before you even figure in gas.

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## Author
James Clark is the editor-in-chief of Task & Purpose. He is a former Marine and a veteran of the War in Afghanistan.

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