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The original contract of sale to the UK mandated that none of the Phantoms could be resold once their service life had ended. They all had to be scrapped. Those still in existance are still - nominally - under UK military control. |The contract specified that NONE were to be allowed to be passed on for preservation.
Presumably the intention was to reduce risk of technology transfer, and also to protect the market for new aircraft.
I assume thats why the much suggested sale of the RAF Phantoms to Turkey never happened??
Last edited by Milo Minderbinder; 12th Jan 2013 at 19:15.