F-104S "36-55" 156°Gruppo of 36°Stormo from Gioia del Colle AB in 1980 during an exchange with German Air Force JaboG 31 (1st Staffel) at Norvenich AB

F-104S, construction number 783-1138, serial number MM6838, model 783, built by Aeritalia at Turin-Caselle
Aeritalia 07.1973; delivery date 102°Gruppo 14.3.1974, 5-18 18.3.1974-01.1978; IRAN 1.3.1979; delivery date 156°Gruppo 2.4.1979, 36-55 30.10.1979-25.7.1980
delivery date 102°Gruppo 21.4.1983, cocooned Rimini 9.6.1984; IRAN + F-104S.ASA conversion 1.9.1987-8.1.1989
delivery date 12°Gruppo 19.1.1989, 36-10 11.10.1989-30.12.1991; IRAN 30.12.1991-1.10.1994; delivery date 12°Gruppo 24.10.1994
delivery date 10°Gruppo 23.2.1995, 9-46 1.11.1995-25.3.1998; IRAN + F-104S.ASA-M conversion 25.3.1998-9.12.1999; grey camouflage scheme
delivery date 20°Gruppo 9.2.1999, 4-58 21.1.2000-18.03.2004, last flight to Grazzanise 18.3.1004 with 3.537 flight hours
withdrawn from use 20.3.2004-25.5.2007, CFE cut-up 23.10.2006
preserved uncoded at Bevilacqua-Montagnana airfield Aero Club (grass airfield), Padova district April 14, 2008 first noted; July 2022 noted.

45°14'50.75"N 11°25'16.20"E

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