Naval Air Station Oceana
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Naval Air Station (NAS) Oceana or NAS Oceana is a United States Navy Naval Air Station located in Virginia Beach, Virginia.
A VF-41 F-4J over NAS Oceana in the late 1960s
VF-213 & VF-31 conduct a flyover of NAS Oceana after returning from the Tomcat's final deployment.
A mass casualties drill was conducted aboard Naval Air Station Oceana during training exercises. Firefighter/EMT Greg Tetro breaks the rear glass of an automobile to rescue a trapped victim.
The McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II is an American tandem two-seat, twin-engine, all-weather, long-range supersonic jet interceptor and fighter-bomber originally developed by McDonnell Aircraft for the United States Navy. Proving highly adaptable, it entered service with the Navy in 1961 before it was adopted by the United States Marine Corps and the United States Air Force, and by the mid-1960s it had become a major part of their air arms. Phantom production ran from 1958 to 1981 with a total of 5,195 aircraft built, making it the most produced American supersonic military aircraft in history, and cementing its position as a signature combat aircraft of the Cold War.
The McDonnell F3H-G/H mockup, 1954
Key figures in the F-4 development: David Lewis, Robert Little, and Herman Barkey
An F4H-1F aboard Independence, April 1960