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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-83 / F-104 Starfighter
    Latest Model:F-104C-5-LO Starfighter
    Last Military Serial:56-0890 USAF
    Construction Number:383-1178
    Latest Owner or Location:Tennessee ANG - 134th ARG, Maryville, Tennessee

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-104C-5-LO by Lockheed at Burbank, California, USA.

    Circa 1956

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 56-0890.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Loaned to TN Ang (mcghee Typson), 134 ARW/MXQ, McGhee Tyson ANGB, TN.

    Placed on display with Tennessee ANG-134th ARG, Maryville, TN.
    Placed on display in recognition of the men who served with the 134th Fighter Group during the Berlin Crisis in 1961-62 and as a memorial to the following who made the supreme sacrifice: Lt. Edward J. Shultz, Lt. james W. Ridout III and Tsct. Preston E. Presley.
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    Markings Applied: FG-880, 60880

    Circa 2000


    Photographer: Dave Gorman
    Notes: This F-104C-5-LO (56-890) is on display just inside the main gate at McGhee-Tyson Air National Guard Base in Alcoa, TN, south of Knoxville. It is painted as 56-880 (per Baugher)

    27 July 2011


    Photographer: Dave Gorman

    27 July 2011


    Photographer: Dave Gorman

    17 April 2016


    Photographer: Bruce Kawakami
    Notes: Repainted and back on display
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    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2007 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     National Museum of the United States Air Force
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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