Lockheed F-104A Starfighter, 56-0826 / 183-1114, Private
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Registration: 56-0826
Construction Number: 183-1114
Code Number: 36-5019
Model Lockheed F-104A Starfighter
Operator: Private
Airport: Mojave (MHV / KMHV), USA - California
Photographer: Derek Heley
Date Taken: 06/06/1989
Date Submitted: 29/07/2008
Produced as an F-104A-25-LO under the USAF serial 56-826, this aircraft spent its last service days at the AFTC (Air Force Test Center) at Edwards AFB, California. On January 25, 1968, it was transferred to AMARC, coded FB014, on October 22, 1971 it had been sold to Allied Aircraft at Tucson, Arizona. By the mid-1980s it was in private hands and painted as 36-5019 of JASDF for film purposes. Presently (July 2010) the aircraft is preserved at the Historic Aviation Memorial Museum at Tyler Pounds Regional Airport, Tyler, Texas, marked as 56-733/FG-733.
Picture ID:1121392