12/31/2008. Remarks by Johan Visschedijk: "Ordered in FY 1972, this aircraft was produced for the USAF as an F-4E-54-MC. It was withdrawn from service and stored at the AMARC on June 25, 1991. It was picked to be converted to a QF-4E FSAT (Full-Scale Aerial Target).

The FSAT QF-4E is in fact a remotely controlled drone and is fitted with Automatic Flight Control System, Command/Telemetry System, VDOPS Scoring System, Flight Termination System, Visual Enhancement System and Ancillary Subsystems. A number of QF-4Es (including 72-1485 and 74-0665) retain their dual control system for training and are fitted with advanced countermeasure systems. They can be distinguished from the unmanned QF-4Es by the six antennae from the VDOPS scoring system, the hump on top of the fuselage, a crude box on the left intake and a fairing in the left forward Sparrow well.

72-1485 is operated by Detachment 1, 82nd ATRS (Aerial Targets Squadron), 53rd WEG (Weapons Evaluation Group), USAF Air Warfare Center, Air Combat Command, and based at Holloman AFB, Alamogordo, New Mexico. It is finished in the typical Southeast Asia camouflage from the 1960s era of sand, two-tone green and light gray undersurfaces."