This Phantom II belonged to the Naval Weapons Test Squadron Point Mugu (NWTSPM) and was converted from US Marine Corps F-4S to full scale aerial target for the US Navy. This job was done at NAD Cherry Point (NC) from April 1997. The aircraft was first noted operational as F-4S in March 1998). The rear ejection seat was removed and the aircraft was flown several times by a single pilot over the Pacific Missile Test range. Many QF-4S' were shot down, but 104 was scrapped at home base Point Mugu, as one of the last VX-30 Bloudhounds US Navy Phantoms in the Fall of 2004.

'Red Devils' F-4S blasts off from MCAS Yuma with live ordnance during WTI 02-88