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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-83 / F-104 Starfighter
    Latest Model:F-104A Starfighter
    Last Military Serial:56-0826 USAF
    Construction Number:183-1114
    Compressed ID:Lockheed F-104A sn 56-0826 USAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Historic Aviation Memorial Museum, Tyler Pounds Field (East Side), Tyler, Texas

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-104A.
    As 60763

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 56-0826.

    24 March 1987


    Photographer: David Lednicer
    Notes: An engineless Starfighter, sitting on the ramp at Mojave

    By April 2005

    To Historic Aviation Memorial Museum, Tyler Pounds Field (East Side), Tyler, TX.
    View the Location Dossier

    24 April 2010


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Tyler Pounds, TX, USA
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    Aerodata Quantum+
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     John Bennett
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