F-104DJ "015" 205th Hikotai Japanese Air Self Defense Forces (JASDF) carrying Orange bands around fuselage during ACM meeting in 1980

F-104DJ, construction number 583B-5415, model 583-10-17, serial number 36-5015, Lockheed built, reassembled by Mitsubishi
Lockheed built; reassembled from supplied knock-down kits from Lockheed; delivery date August 14, 1963; first 201st Hikotai of 2nd Wing; from about 1969 207th Hikotai
from about 1974 201st Hikotai; later 204th Hikotai; from 1979 Jikken Kokudan (APW); 1980 to 205th Hikotai; after this Hikotai disbanded to 202nd Hikotai in 1981
April 1983 withdrawn from use; scrapped.

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