Recently a bare metal F-104G Starfighter was noticed inside the big restoration hall at the Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in Oregon. It looks like the F-104G FX84 which was for sale with the nearby located Classic Aircraft Museum. The museum is very busy restoring the aircraft and we cannot wait to see what the result will be ... Today we got confirmation that it is indeed the F-104G FX84 which was traded from the Classic Aircraft Museum. The restoration is led by Nelson Havel, who is also one of the volunteers at the Classic Aircraft Museum....quite a cooperation together. The FX84 will be painted into a earlier NASA Starfighter!!.

Two Florida residents have become the first to complete a new commercial space flight training program at NASA's John F Kennedy Space Center (KSC). Terence Witt, founder of Witt Biomedical, and his wife Virginia trained for space in the Lockheed F-104 Starfighter, the same supersonic plane used to prepare Mercury, Gemini and Apollo astronauts for space travel. The husband and wife team completed their training with Starfighters, Inc, a privately-owned company operating under a formal Space Act Agreement allowing them full utilization of KSC's Shuttle Landing Facility (SLF). See more here.

On April 29, 2008, the Air Base Buchel handed over the cockpit-section (front fuselage) of F-104G 24+11 on loan to the Museum Flugsicherheit und Rettung e.V. located at Baden Airpark, Germany. Director Gerhard Neumann was very pleased with this nice addition to his museum. Among lots of different ejectionseats it now has a cockpit forward fuselage section of the mentioned 24+11 and also a MIG 21.

It is worth a visit!!! (Adres Summerside Avenue, Gebäude C 29 (Shelter) at Rheinmünster) .
The museum website shows a wonderful 360 degrees 3D motion page for the Starfighter cockpit.
To experience this wonderful look please go to this link.

The ex Karlsruhe preserved F-104G 21+00 can be found stored inside the barracks at Germersheim. Today Mark Wassenaar visited the camp and was able to make some photos. It is planned to be placed on another pole at Germersheim, where also F-104G 24+66 can be found preserved. See photo ..

The Dutch Air Force Museum authority (MLM) has ordered back TF-104G D-5805 from the museum "bevrijdende vleugels" at Best, Holland. Due to the snow the transport to the MLM storage at Soesterberg was delayed but the transport will be expected any moment in February. Hopefully the aircraft will be stored securely and not be subject of another aircraft being scrapped.

Glyn Roberts stated this week that there are new plans for the British F-104G 22+57. It will not be sold and also they will not make the aircraft running anymore. The owner is affraid that the aircraft might be damaged during high speed taxy...like recently a private British Victor bomber encountered an issue when it made a short unplanned "hop"... The Starfighter will soon be moved to an airfield called Spanhoe in North Hamtonshire. There a group of people will open a new museum where the F-104G will be star of the show. But first it needs lots of attention.

The F-104 with code "4-21" which can be found preserved at Poggio Ballone (near Grosseto AB) has been identified recently by IFS member Michiel Vogelpoel. He found out that it is the F-104G MM6611 which once was a monument at AMI-Centocelle. It had arrived at Poggio via Grosseto and so it must have been restored and repainted probably with 4 RMV. SEE PHOTO!!!
The MM6611 was erected on 1 October 1993 at Centonelle and lateron removed there (replaced by MM6916) and after refurbishing MM6611 was erected at Poggio on 1 July 1998 (Both dates are not yet 100% confirmed)

On October, 19th. 2009 an aviation enthousiast noticed a preserved Jordan F-104B and took some photos of it. It was in a town called Madaba on google earth coordinates : 31°43'19.20"N, 35°47'33.10"O. It showed to be F-104B "902/C" (c/n 5010 - 57-1298) which has been repainted in some kind of alu-silver dope scheme and newly applied serial and markings, since they are now on a different location then they were applied seen back in 2000 at H5 Air Base when it was stored outside. They also did remove the engine.The aircraft has been completely covered with light-strings which must be a spectacular sight in the dark when all these lights show the contours of the aircraft.
Also another F-104A was noticed preserved on a pole between Ibid and Jerash, in a road corner surrounded by trees. It was roughly read as possibly "916". Sadly no photos could be taken.

The 2009 movie "Night at the museum - Battle of the Smithsonian" is released. Inside this move there is a certain moment that an actor is entering the Smithsonian Museum in Washington DC. At least it should give the attention but in the main hall you can clearly see a two-seater Starfighter with serial FG-294 and markings of the commander of 479TFW George AFB (late 50s). To find out more about this Starfighter Mark Wassenaar contacted the Smithsonian museum.
This week we got information from a guy named Brad. He knew the identity of the aircraft used inside the movie. He stated that it once was found preserved at Comox AB and was replaced by a CF-101 Voodoo. We know that the CF-104D 104645 was once found preserved at Comox AB and then it was transported to the Canadian Museum of Flight, Surrey British Colombia, Canada around 1990. This particular CF-104D aircraft has been borrowed for this movie.