File:F-104 right side view.jpg

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Description A Lockheed F-104G Starfighter (USAF serial number 63-13269) during a training flight on 1 August 1979, armed with two (training) AIM-9J Sidewinder air-to-air-missiles. The aircraft, from the 69th Tactical Fighter Training Squadron, 58th Tactical Training Wing, 12th Air Force, was used to train German Luftwaffe (air force) pilots at Luke Air Force Base, Arizona (USA). This aircraft had actually been licence built by Fokker in the Netherlands and had the original German registration "KG 102". After the retirement of the German Starfighters this aircraft was handed back to the U.S. and sold to Taiwan.
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Source U.S. DefenseImagery photo VIRIN: DF-ST-82-06481; U.S. National Archive No. NN33300514 2005-06-30.
Author Camera Operator: Ken Hackman, USAF
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1 August 1979

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current18:04, 24 March 2017Thumbnail for version as of 18:04, 24 March 20172,458 × 1,780 (847 KB)HohumSlightly brighten dark areas
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14:56, 7 January 2008Thumbnail for version as of 14:56, 7 January 20082,458 × 1,780 (992 KB)F l a n k e r{{Information |Description=An air-to-air right side view of an F-104 Starfighter aircraft carrying two AIM-9J Sidewinder missiles. The aircraft, from the 69th Tactical Fighter Training Squadron, 58th Tactical Training Wing, 12th Air Force, is involved in

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