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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-83 / F-104 Starfighter
    Latest Model:CF-104D Mk 1 Starfighter
    Last Military Serial:857C CAF
    Construction Number:583A-5318
    Compressed ID:Lockheed CF-104D Mk 1 sn 857C CAF c...
    Latest Owner or Location:Air Parc Zruc, Zruc-Senec, Plzen

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a CF-104D Mk 1.

    From 10 May 1963 to 28 July 1970

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Royal Canadian Air Force with s/n 12648.

    Transferred to RCAF Station Cold Lake, AB.

    Transferred to No. 417 Squadron, CFB Cold Lake.

    From 28 July 1970 to 13 November 1992

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Canadian Armed Forces with s/n 104648.
    Was with 417 Squadron when assigned the CAF s/n.

    From Unknown to After February 1995

    Transferred to Canadian Air Group, CFB Baden-Sollingen, Germany.

    13 May 1986

    New serial number assigned: 857C CAF
    Became repair instructional airframe.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the Turk Hava Kuvvetleri.

    1998

    To Musee Chateau de Savigny-Les-Beaune, France.

    2005

    To Zruc Museum, Czech Republic.

    Restored.
    Fitted with the tail of CAF s/n 104634.
    For more information about this other airframe see this Airframe Dossier

    To Air Parc Zruc, Zruc-Senec, Plzen.
    View the Location Dossier

    1 August 2005


    Photographer: Han de Ridder

    18 August 2021


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: Tail of 104634, which is maried with 104648, at Zruc, Czech Republic

    18 August 2021


    Photographer: Reinhard Jost
    Notes: At Zruc Air Park, Czech Republic
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