F-104S.ASA "53-04" "21°Gruppo Tigre" 21°Gruppo of 53°Stormo for Tiger Meet with 53rd TFS at Bitburg AFB, West Germany 1991

aircraft with black fuselage and a "tiger skin" painted on, culminating in a "tiger-head" just after the cockpit
Lower surfaces are Ivory and on wing tips fuel tank is painted in red "21 Gruppo Tigre", while on the tail is showed the Stormo badge, the "Ace of Sword"

F-104S, construction number 783-1064, serial number MM6764, model 783, built by Aeritalia
production line 28.4.1971; delivery date 9°Gruppo 13.5.1971; 4-9 IX Gruppo CIO of 4°Stormo 05.1971
Aeritalia weapons test aircraft with 102°Gruppo marks 7.5.1974; 311°Gruppo 09.1974; 53-07 21°Gruppo CIO of 53°Stormo "Guglielmo Chiarini" 08.1976-2.7.1980; IRAN 2.7.1980-3.4.1981
delivery date 22°Gruppo CIO of 51°Stormo "Ferruccio Serafini" 15.5.1881, 51-04 06.1981-24.2.1986; IRAN + F-104S.ASA conversion from 24.2.1986-31.7.1987
Alenia test aircraft for F-104S.ASA conversion 31.7.1987; marked X-3 on the rudder 16.9.1987-16.12.1987; 5-31 23°Gruppo of 5°Stormo in Rimini 2.9.1988-23.3.1991
53-05 03.1991-12.4.1991; 53-04 special colors "21 Gruppo Tigre II" on tail for second tiger outfit 17.7.1991-18.9.1991
IRAN 26.11.1991-24.2.1993; delivery date 23°Gruppo CIO of 5°Stormo Caccia "Giuseppe Cenni" 03.1993,
5-31 4.8.1993-29.12.1993; delivery date 22°Gruppo 29.12.1993, 51-03 22°Gruppo CIO of 51°Stormo 3.1.1994-6.3.1997
RSV 6.3.1997-18.9.1997; IRAN + F-104S.ASA-M conversion 18.2.1998-19.7.1999; respray in grey camouflage scheme
delivery date 10°Gruppo CIO of 9°Stormo "Francesco Baracca" 19.7.1999; 9-39 13.9.1999-20.5.2002
delivery date 18°Gruppo CIO of 37°Stormo "Cesare Toschi" Trapani 20.5.2002, 37-11 23.8.2002-4.6.2003; withdrawn from use Grazzanise 18.6.2003; stored Grazzanise AB 2003; May 2010 stored noted.

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