Pictured during one of its final landings, this Spook was delivered to Sotuh Korea as part of the US Foreign Military Sales program in the Peace Pheasant II sales. FMS serial 78-0740 was first flown on 16 May 1979 and was delivered as 80-740 in June 1979. It was retired in June 2024.

It was a thrill to see this great aircraft approach its home base of Suwon just prior to phase out of the type with the South Korean Air Force. This aircraft has USAF s/n 78-0734 and belongs to the final batch of Phantoms produced in the USA (the final final batch was a number of aircraft for the Iranian Air Force, but these aircraft were never completed after the 1979 revolution in that country; Mitsubishi continued to build Phantoms in Japan until 1981).

A rare sight to catch a clean Phantom! Most likely performing a functional check flight after some kind of maintenance

Phantom returning home after taking part in the flypast for the 2019 ADEX Seoul Airshow