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CF-104D (c/n 5302 104632) "N104NL" / "N166TB" / "N104RB"
This two seat Canadian Starfighter was once flown by the Canadian Armed Forces since its delivery on 1 May 1962. It served the testsquadron at Cold Lake for many years and when the Canadians wanted to decrease their operational F-104 fleet they sold this aircraft to the Norwegian Air Force on 23 May 1973. On 14 September that year it arrived in Norway receiving serial "4632". It served 334Skv at Bodo until its retirement on 19 November 1982 and put in storage at Sola Air Base and lateron Flesland Air Station. In November 1988 it was bought by Northern Light Aircraft Corporation and brought over to the USA by C-130 Hercules on the 30th that month. The company spent a lot of hours to service the aircraft, which got civil registration "N104NL" and on 16 May 1989 it made its first flight at Mojave Apt. It was used for a lot of testflights (instruments testing for companies) and payed funflights until it was grounded in June 1993. In December 1993 it was offered for sale. In 1994 it was sold to Thunderbird Aviation and it was transported to their headquarters at Deer Valley on 11 April 1994. This company gave the aircraft a intensive service treatment removing all the paintwork and checking the complete airframe and avionics. It got a new civil registration, "N166TB", which was more in line with the registration of their other aircraft. Soon after the aircraft flew again and the company received a number of interesting contracts from the US Air Force. From 29th of August 1995 till mid January 1996 it flew several test flights from Edwards Air Force Base in California. Soon after the company stopped their flight test facilities and the aircraft was sold to Rick Svetkoff who started a Starfighter demonstration team. It was bought in January 1996 and after a number of inspections in Deer Valley it was flown over from Deer Valley to Clearwater, Florida on 6 February.At Clearwater the aircraft received some necessary overhaul and made some taxy runs in October 1996. The real first flight was in March 1997 with Tom Delashaw on the controls. Then the aircraft went to Lakeland for a repaint on the 10th of March, making it ready for its first demonstration season. The team got a number of sponsors and fuel etc was obtained via the demonstration invitations on several air shows at for example Ft Lauderdale, McDill, Louisville, Andrews, Michigan, Dayton, Oskosh etc… On 20 May 1997 its civil registration was changed from "N166TB" to "N104RB". this registration was not choosen because of the famous red baron Starfighter but it was named after the owner and his wife (Rick and Barbara). The aircraft was prepared for its new blue-white STARFIGHTERS color scheme which was applied around spring 1998. It has been in use until 2017 and put in storage. In March 2019 the aircraft was donated to the Royal Air Museum, located at Bonifay, Florida. The aircraft will stay in storage at Starfighters Inc. for now. The photo was taken during the Oceana Air Show on 9 September 2006 by Michael de Boer.
Non-flyable status due to ejectionseats which cannot be certified again. Civil F-104 - International F-104 Society





 
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