F-104G "FN-T" RNoAF Bodo AB 1964

F-104G, construction number 683C-4034, model 683-10-19, US serial number 62-12232, built by Lockheed
RF-104G MAP to Norway coded "FN-T" August 7, 1963 with 12 flight hours to 331 squadron
This Starfighter was one of many delivered to Norway via the USS Croatan which arrived at Agag harbor on August 6, 1963.
It also had a RF-104G camera housing like lots of the early Norwegian Starfighters did. They did not wear cameras and soon were
removed during the first maintenance cycle (or IRAN), modified to F-104G in August 1963
62-12232 has been participating squadron exchanges with an RAF squadron based at Wildenrath in June 1979 and also with a F-104 squadron at Volkel Air Base in May 1966.
It received IRAN with Fokker Avio-Diepen, Ypenburg Air Base between January and July 1971
coded "232" from September 1, 1972, returned coded "232" to USAF on July 9, 1981 with 3.465 flight hours
It was flown over just as other Norwegian MAP aircraft to Sculthorpe, UK where it arrived July 8, 1981.
At Sculthorpe the aircraft received Turkish markings and was flown over to Turkey on July 15th, with a nightstop at Grosseto, arriving at Murted Air Base July 16, 1981
to Turkish AF on July 16, 1981 coded "4-232" (TuAF serial number 62-12232) with 141 Filo 1983 last noted; withdrawn from use on January 14, 1988; likely scrapped.

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