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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-83 / F-104 Starfighter
    Latest Model:F-104F Starfighter
    Last Military Serial:29+11 WGAF
    Construction Number:283-5061
    Compressed ID:Lockheed F-104F sn 29+11 WGAF cn 28...
    Latest Owner or Location:Flugwelt Altenburg-Nobitz, Altenburg Nobitz Airport, Altenburg, Thuringia

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-104F.

    Circa 1959

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 59-5008.

    29 September 1960

    New serial number assigned: BB+374 WGAF

    1968

    New serial number assigned: 29+11 WGAF

    14 December 1970

    Crashed.
    Heavy damaged December 14, 1970 during an emergency landing due to bird strike at Soesterberg AB, Netherlands. During landing roll main landing gear broke off; both pilots were ok.

    1972

    To Air Force Barracks, Wahnheide, Koln (Cologne), North Rhine-Westphalia.
    Mounted on a pylon.
    View the Location Dossier

    Markings Applied: BB+374

    2007

    To Luftwaffen Museum, ex RAF Gatow, Berlin, Berlin.
    Stored dismantled.
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    2011

    Loaned to Flugwelt Altenburg-Nobitz, Altenburg Nobitz Airport, Altenburg, Thuringia.
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    2 July 2017


    Photographer: Thorsten Ruchel
    Notes: bad conditions for taking photos

    12 July 2023


    Photographer: Thorsten Ruchel
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