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 Lockheed TF-104G - Mountain View, California Posted by:  DougK
N 37° 24.712 W 122° 03.260
10S E 583686 N 4140983
This F-104 class plane spent its final years as a test aircraft for NASA. It was involved in the Optical Periscope Test Program and the X30 shuttle program.
Waymark Code: WMVFY3
Location: California, United States
Date Posted: 04/13/2017
Views: 2
This F-104 spent its early career in the Netherlands and Germany, before being returned to California and used as a NASA test aircraft. IT's now on display outside the Moffett Field Museum.
A detailed history of this aircraft was extracted and reformatted from this page:
- 1966 TF-104G, construction number 583F-5939, model 583-10-20, US serial number 66-13628
- manufactured by Lockheed (ARGE-USA) and Messerschmitt (ARGE-Süd) and VFW
- January 10, 1967 - airlifted to Lockheed-Burbank
- assembly and test flights at Palmdale coded with US serial number 66-13628
- May 10, 1967 - acceptance date by BABwLockheed
- June 19, 1967 - airlifted to Avio Diepen at Ypenburg AB, Netherlands
- August 21, 1967 test flight, coded KF+239
- camouflage scheme "Norm 62" according tech order "TA-196"
- August 25, 1967 - delivery date, DF+365 JaboG 36 at Hopsten AB
- July 24, 1968 - JaboG 34
- September 20, 1968 - JaboG 36
- February 25, 1975 - 28+09 MFG 1 (Marine Air Wing 1) 1 at Schleswig-Jagel AB
- June 26, 1975 - WaSLw 10 (Weapons School 10) at Jever AB for familiarization of NASA pilots
- July 3, 1975 - struck off charge order (AVA)
- June 27, 1975 - ferry flight from Jever AB to Edwards AFB
- July 2, 1975 - officially acquired (bought) by NASA and arrived at Edwards flown by Bill Dana and Einar Enevoldson in GAF color scheme
- coded as NASA 825 (registration N825NA) at Dryden Research Center Edwards AFB, CA
- April 12, 1989 - flown over to Dryden from NASA Center by an Air Force pilot and Roger Smith and was put in flyable storage from that day after arrival
- September 1992 and August 1993 - seen in storage
- October 1993 - was involved in the OPTP program (Optical Periscope Test Program)
- November 1993 - participated in the NASA (X30 shuttle) program
- January 24, 1994 - flew its last NASA mission
- February 1, 1994 - made its last flight
- February 3, 1994 - dropped from the NASA inventory
- March 1994 - went into storage at Dryden AFB
- January 1995 - seen stored on the line at Edwards AFB
- September 1995 - stored inside the big hangar at Edwards AFB
- April 21, 1997 - seen for the first time at the gate of Moffet Field
- Preserved as gate guard at Moffett Field with NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA
- October 3, 2003 - taken from the US register
- 2006 first noted, Moffett Field Historical Society Museum
- June 6, 2009 - seen under restoration at Moffett Field in Hangar 3
- April 9, 2010 - NASA Ames Research Center air show
- December 2016 - noted after restoration
Type of Aircraft: (make/model): F-104 family
Tail Number: (S/N): 66-13628 (NASA 825)
Construction:: original aircraft
Location (park, airport, museum, etc.): Moffett Field Museum
inside / outside: outside
Access restrictions:
RESTRICTED ACCESS:
Access the base by telling the guard, you want to visit the Moffett Field Museum: Wed-Sat, 10am - 3pm
Other Information:: Not listed
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Photo of serial number (required unless there is not one or it is a replica)
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