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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-83 / F-104 Starfighter
    Latest Model:F-104 Starfighter
    Last Military Serial:57-0915 USAF
    Construction Number:383-1232
    Latest Owner or Location:Joe Davies Heritage Airpark at Palmdale Plant 42, Palmdale, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-104.

    Circa 1957

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 57-0915.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Loaned to The USAF Airman Heritage Museum, Kelly Field (formerly Kelly AFB), San Antonio, TX.
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    Loaned to City of Palmdale, Palmdale, CA.

    Placed on display with Joe Davies Heritage Airpark, Palmdale Plant 42, Palmdale, CA.
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    14 October 1978


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: This F-104C Starfighter was in the USAF History and Traditions Museum at Lackland AFB in 1978 and is now in the Heritage Air Park, Plant 42, Palmdale.

    Circa 1999


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Joe Davies Heritage Airpark at Palmdale Plant 42, Palmdale, CA

    5 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    26 May 2013


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: Exhibited at the Joe Davies Heritage Airpark at Palmdale Plant 42, Palmdale, California

    14 October 2022


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    14 October 2022


    Photographer: Robert Nichols


    Credits
    Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...

    Print Sources
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 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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