YRF-4C Phantom II

This jet is a test airframe, and its path to Houma ran through Illinois. Serial 62-12201 was the second RF-4C built. It began as a Navy F4H-1, was converted on McDonnell's line into a YRF-110A Spectre, and was later redesignated RF-4C. The Air Force used it in development testing of General Electric J79 engines. In June 1978 it went to Chanute Air Force Base for ground instruction as a GRF-4C. After Chanute closed, it went to the Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum in Rantoul, and when that museum closed in 2015 it moved to Houma.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Southdown Plantation and Terrebonne Museum — 1.2 mi
  A Greek Revival sugar plantation house in Houma, worked by 233 enslaved people by 1852, with the last Terrebonne mill's story and a worker's cabin of about 1885.
• Mandalay National Wildlife Refuge — 5.2 mi
  A 4,212-acre refuge of freshwater marsh and cypress-tupelo swamp southwest of Houma, with a nature trail to a boardwalk and observation deck and mostly boat-only access.
• Laurel Valley Village — 15 mi
  A sugar plantation's workers' village south of Thibodaux, with cabins of about 1845, shotgun houses, a store and cemetery, and the 1887 strike and massacre in the parish around it.
• Wetlands Acadian Cultural Center — 16 mi
  A Jean Lafitte National Historical Park center on Bayou Lafourche with Acadian and bayou-life exhibits, a 200-seat theater and ranger-guided boat tours to the E. D. White house.

More markers nearby

• Fifth Districts High School — 0.3 mi
• Saint Francis de Sales Church — 0.5 mi
• Terrebonne Parish Courthouse Square Oaks — 0.6 mi
• 1834-1934 — 0.6 mi