F-104 Starfighters and their participation in other exercises

On this page an overview of all known events in which Starfighters played their own roles, mainly in Europe.
Exercised are discussed in alphabetic order.

 

William Tell meet

USA

 1959 USAF 337 FiS and 83 FiS. Particpating aircraft included F-104A 56-876.

2ATAF-4ATAF meet

Chaumont AB

 June 1965 Royal Canadian Air Force 4W

 

AFCENT ADC (Air Defense Competition) 1967

Soesterberg AFB and Wittmund AB.

 5 till 7 June 1967

Dutch Air Force 322sq and German Air Force JG71 (JA+111, JA+117 and JA+236). The Germans and Dutch replaced eachother during this Air Defense exercise against the 32FiS F-102A Delta Daggers from Soesterberg AFB.

JA+111
JA+111 (lateron becoming 23+45) is seen here during the ADC67 meet (Oberst Goebel).

 

AFCENT ADC (Air Defense Competition) 1968

Soesterberg AFB?

 June 1968 Dutch Air Force 322sq and German Air Force JG71 (20+85) and JG74. The JG74 won the competition together with the Hahn, Germany stationed 496th FiS from the USAF.

AFCENT ADC (Air Defense Competition) 1969

Wittmund AFB

 June 1969 Dutch Air Force 322sq (D-8090, D-8319, D-8331, D-8338 and D-6653) and German Air Force JG71 (23+54)

AFCENT ADC (Air Defense Competition) 1970

Soesterberg AFB

 27 till 29 April 1970 Dutch Air Force 322sq

 

Ample Gain - Ample Train

AMPLE TRAIN was initiated to improve the ability of NATO's Air Forces to work on and with each others aircraft; ground servicing crews from one nation will work with air crew and aircraft from other nations. This exercise was a result of a decision taken by AIRCENT (Allied Air Forces Central Europe) and often mentioned the multinational Aircraft Cross-Servicing exercise. Before 1989 it was named Ample Gain..

 

Zweibrucken AB

 3 till 12 June 1986 Italian Air Force 132Gruppo (MM6522/3-04, MM6529/3-01, MM6586/3-12) (Ample Gain)

Volkel AB

 7 till 11 September 1987

Italian Air Force 28Gruppo (MM6547/3-37, MM6576/3-45)
(Ample Gain) On 9 September an press day was organised.

MM6576_MM6547
MM6576/3-45 and MM6547 taxying out at Volkel on 7 and 9 September (Michael de Boer and Roger Seroo)

Laarbruch AB

 5 till 9 June 1989 Italian Air Force 102Gruppo (MM6744/5-01, MM6910/5-04 and MM6920/5-26)

Bremgarten AB

 22 till 26 October 1990

Italian Air Force 132Gruppo (MM6542/3-04 and MM6631/3-05)

MM6542_MM6631
MM6542 and MM6631 at Bremgarten (Peter Steendam)
Kleine Brogel AB 12 till 14 June 1991 Italian Air Force 102Gruppo (MM6744/5-07, MM6845/5-11)

St Mawgan AB

 24 till 27 May 1993

Italian Air Force 22Gruppo (MM6703/51-23, MM6719/51-06)

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MM6703 and MM6719 taxying at StMawgan (Steve Rendle)
Ramstein AFB 2 till 4 October 1993 Italian Air Force 9Gruppo (MM6769/4-2, MM6787/4-7)
Twenthe AB 6 till 10 June 1994 Italian Air Force 12Gruppo (MM6732/36-02, MM6828/36-07), MM6733/36-10 and MM54257/4-39. The 36-10 and 4-39 both landed June 8th and returned home on June 10th.
Pferdsfeld AB 10 till 14 October 1994

Italian Air Force 21Gruppo (MM6796/53-06, MM6816/53-14, MM6848/53-04, MM6925/53-01, MM6939/53-11).

MM6848_MM6816_MM6925
MM6816/53-14 taken on 20 October and MM6925 and MM6848 during another day at Pferdsfeld AB (Roger Seroo and Peter Doll)
Örland AB 29 May till 2 June 1995 Italian Air Force 18Gruppo (MM6747/37-24, MM6759/37-26, MM6798/37-01). Aircraft flew back to Istrana by making a stop at Soesterberg AB. They departed from this airbase on June 5th to Italy

Best Hit

Larissa AB

 13 till 22 July 1972

Turkish Air Force 141 Filo including F-104G aircraft 62-12313, 62-12325 and 62-12336. Very likely also some Greece Air Force Starfighters participated.

62-12313
F-104G 62-12313 with a number of others on the Larissa flightline in July 1972 (Hans Koning)


Bold Game

NATO airbases

 1966 German Navy MFG2
NATO airbases 22 April till 11 May 1986 German Navy MFG2

Bold Guard

Schlesswig Jagel AB

 13 till 22 September 1978 German Navy MFG1


Botany Bay

NATO airbases

 13 till 24 September 1965 German Navy MFG1 (including VA+155)

NATO airbases

 7 till 25 September 1977 German Navy MFG1, MFG2

NATO airbases

 4 till 29 September 1979 German Navy MFG1, MFG2


Bright Horizon

NATO airbases

 1966 German Navy MFG2

NATO airbases

 10 till 22 May 1979 German Navy MFG2

NATO airbases

 6 till 15 May 1986 German Navy MFG2


Brown Falcon

NATO airbases

 October 1974 Danish Air Force 726 Eskader

NATO airbases

 27 till 28 May 1986 German Navy MFG2


China Coat

NATO airbases

 16 till 22 September 1969 German Navy MFG1 and MFG2


Distant Thunder

Eskisehir AB

 30 April till 15 May 1998 Italian Air Force 9Gruppo (MM6704/4-7, MM6705/4-5, MM6774/4-1, MM6805/4-10, MM6828/4-55, MM6840/4-2)

Equal Effort

NATO airbases

 15 till 29 September 1971 German Navy MFG2


Good Grill

NATO airbases

 10 till 20 September 1973 German Navy MFG2


Northern Merger

NATO airbases

 6 till 27 September 1974 German Navy MFG1 and MFG2


Northern Wedding

NATO airbases

 19 till 25 September 1970 German Navy MFG1

NATO airbases including Lista AB and Mildenhall AFB

 4 till 19 September 1978 German Navy MFG1

NATO airbases

 6 till 17 September 1982 German Navy MFG2


Ocean Safari

Orland AB

 14 till 20 November 1975 German Navy MFG1 (with six F-104Gs)

Orland AB

 25 September till 5 October 1979 German Navy MFG2 (with six RF-104Gs, five F-104Gs and one TF-104G)


Silver Tower

NATO airbases

 17 till 29 September 1968 German Navy MFG1


Strong Express

NATO airbases

 15 till 25 September 1972 German Navy MFG1 and MFG2


TACEVAL
Most of the times this was a tactical evaluation of an airbase protecting itself against attacks.

Unknown Airbase (joint)

 2 till ?? March 1970 German Air Force JBG31 and Canadian Armed Forces 439sq and Belgium 1Wing.
Unknown Airbase (joint) October 1989 Italian Air Force 21Gruppo


Tactical Fighter Weaponry

Aalborg

 16 till 20 August 1976 German Navy MFG1 (five F-104Gs)

Aalborg

 16 till 19 August 1977 German Navy MFG2

Aalborg

 14 till 18 August 1978 German Navy MFG2

Aalborg

 16 till 23 August 1980 German Navy MFG1 (six F-104Gs) and MFG2 (six F-104G)

Aalborg

 17 till 31August 1981 German Navy MFG2 (twelve F-104G)

Aalborg

 20 till 31August 1984 German Navy MFG2 (twelve F-104G)


TACPOL

Leeuwarden AB

 29 till 31 March 1983 Dutch Air Force 306sq (D-8107, D-8127) and Canadian Air Force CF-104s 104743 and 104873.


Team Work

NATO airbases

 10 till 24 September 1976 German Navy MFG1 and MFG2

Sola AB

 15 till 22 September 1980 German Navy MFG1 (six F-104G) and MFG2 (six F-104G)

Sola AB

 6 till 15 March 1984 German Navy MFG2 (six F-104G)


Wooden Walls

NATO airbases

 1966 German Navy MFG2

 


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