RF-104G 23+22 MFG 2 launching "Kormoran" anti-ship missile

construction number 683D-7206, model 683-10-19, built by Messerschmitt
manufactured by South Group (ARGE-Süd); assembly by Messerschmitt-Manching starting December 22, 1964
assembly in Fighter-Bomber version according contract lot 8; first flight May 3, 1965 coded KE+506; acceptance date July 13, 1965 by BABwMTT
modification level "Prince" as Fighter-Bomber (for MFG 2) with AS.30 and "Kormoran" anti-ship missile delivery system,
Sidewinder missile launch rails and long range tanks; camouflage scheme TA-196 "Norm 62"
VB+249 MFG 2 delivery date on July 26, 1965
23+22 heavy damaged on April 13, 1971 after leaving runway after landing at Eggebek Air Base; repaired at MBB and back to MFG 2 on August 14, 1972
Navy camouflage scheme TA-196-3 "Norm 76" in 1972
October 16, 1978 to MBB for the MARINE-Recce version TA-1401 with Side Oblique Camera (SOC) KS-87B
MFG 2 on December 19, 1978 as 1st modified RF-104 with the SOC equipment
Luftwaffenschleuse 11 for AN/ALE-40(N) Chaff/Flare countermeasure dispenser equipment according tech order TA-1469 on April 18, 1983, back to MFG 2 on May 20, 1981
LVR 1 "F-104 Kommando" May 5, 1987; WTD 61 on September 2, 1987
withdrawn from use at LwSchleuse 11 on October 14, 1987 with 2.913 flight hours, struck off charge order October 21, 1988
to Hellenic Air Force on November 17, 1988 coded "RF-206" to 116 Pterix at Araxos; withdrawn from use 1993
stored Agrinion 2001, stored Agrinion AB September 17, 2005 last noted
preserved in Ellinopyrgos, some 25 km W of the city of Karditsa, in western Thessaly on mainland Greece
it arrived in 2007 or 2008; November 2009 noted; May 31, 2011 last noted

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