F-104G 26+20 JaboG 34 low level over Portugal operating from Beja AB

construction number 683D-9168, model 683-10-19, built by SABCA
manufactured by West Group (ARGE-West); assembly start October 5, 1964 at SABCA, Gosselies in Fighter-Bomber version
first flight February 18, 1965 coded with construction number "9168", 2 factory test fights and 2 military test flights with 4 flight hours
coded KH+171 acceptance date March 18, 1965 by BABwSABCA; camouflage scheme "Norm 62" according tech order TA-196
DF+239 JaboG 36 delivery date on April 28, 1965
26+20 IRAN SABCA on May 13, 1968 with 544 flight hours; back to JaboG 36 on December 16, 1968
JaboG 31 on December 4, 1974; JaboG 34 on July 25, 1975 
operated with flightdate and crash recorder LEADS 200 according TA 1411 from December 1, 1978 on
new "Lizard" camouflage scheme "Norm 83" on October 25, 1983; WTD 61 on June 1, 1988
stored at LwSchleuse 11 with 3.817 flight hours on December 13, 1988; struck off charge order January 13, 1989; stored Manching AB
BDRT airframe at Lechfeld Air Base July 7, 1992; May 2003 last noted; scrapped by Kutter at Memmingen
cockpit section private owned by Mr. Kai Spörhase at Augsburg 2003; April 2, 2008 last noted

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