F-104A "60801" Lockheed test pilot Art Peterson flying chase for Bill Park in the M-21 "60-6940" (A-12) with the D-21 drone December 1964

F-104A serial number 56-0801, construction number 183-1089, model 183-93-02, built by Lockheed
delivery date January 28, 1958
leased by Lockheed and modified 1959 to F-104G configuration (bigger rudder) for system tests (flight controls)
and for nuclear weapon shape trials (1st prototype F-104G)
first flight as modified F-104G in December 1959, test program (March 1959-June 1968)
April 1962 safety chase plane at AREA 51, OXCART flight text program for A-12.
December 1964 Lockheed test pilot Art Peterson flying chase for Bill Park in the M-21 60-6940 (A-12) with the D-21 drone
phased out on June 14, 1968.
F-104A "F-104" 56-801 on display at Cal Expo in Sacramento, California in August 1972.
In November 1977 refurbished and mounting on the pole of Edwards.
F-104A marked as 56-0801 mounted on a pole in the Edwards Oasis Recreation Center
near the Air Force Flight Test Center Museum with ARDC/AFSC badges, (but it is actually a composite made up of several other F-104As from Mojave).
January 2007 noted; November 2022 noted.

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