The Starfighter Serials

d/d 26feb58, 83rd FIS (feb58-oct58), 538th FIS (oct58-may60), 197th FIS (may60-jul62), 151st FIS (jul62-mar63), 319th FIS (mar63-aug65), MASDC storage (mar68-mar72), Fuselage currently stored at Estrella Aviation Museum, El Paso de Robles, Ca. (last noted June 2007)

Note:
Aircraft was sold after being withdrawn from use on 25 July 1978 to a scrapdealer but it took 2 years before it was taken away from MASDC. This was on 1 April 1980. Soon after the aircraft, or what has left of it (fuselage) went to Tucson Arizona. In 1983 it was bought by Steve Alex and brought to Bangor, Maine. Steve sold it to Wayne Fulton likely in Long Beach California. Then in November 1997 is was noticed for the first time dumped somewhere at Mojave Apt, California where it stayed at least until 2002. It was moved to the Estrella Aviation Museum lateron where it was seen for the first time in the backyard in June 2007. It is not sure what the museum is planning to do with it. The museum is Navy minded so maybe they plan to rebuild it into an ex China Lake test aircraft.

Accident Reports:

It never encountered any accident (as far as we know)

	56-784 has been flown with 83 FiS in the early days. Here a photo taken in 1958 while receiving fuel for the next mission. (sadly we do not know the name of the photographer)
	Here another shot of 56-784 taken during the Cuba crisis. It was operated by 319 FiS. (Photo Lockheed-Martin).
	At the end of its career the aircraft, already provided with the extra "0" (more then 10 years old), was used for testflights at Edwards although we do not have any official data that the aircraft was assigned to the AFFTC. But because it left 319 FiS in 1965 and was put in storage in 1968 it must have been used at Edwards for a number of years. (photo Mike Sudds)
	In March 1968 it arrived at the MASDC storage center waiting for its future together with a lot of other Starfighters. Photo was taken by Ben Marselis.
	Although officlally declared wfu in 1972, the aircraft stayed at MASDC for quite some years and was extremely canabilized. Here it is seen in Dec 1978 wearing misleading AMARC code "FB-053". Photographer unknown.
	In the late 90s the fuselage was found at the dump of Mojave Apt. It is clear that the aircraft had been used for spare parts for all kind of preserved Starfighters. This is all what was left of it. Photographer unknown.
	At least since early 2007 this fuselage can be found in the backyard of the Estrella Aviation Museum in El Paso de Robles, California. We have no idea what the future will bring but the aircraft is nothing more then an empty shell. Photo taken in June 2007 by Jean Luc Beghin.