F-104S.ASA "53-14" 21°Gruppo of 53°Stormo Cameri AB with "Tiger" head on intake at Pferdsfeld (ETSP) 1994

F-104S, construction number 783-1116, serial number MM6816, model 783, built by Aeritalia
delivery date AMI 26.9.1973; 36-16 XII Gruppo CIO 36 Stormo "Riccardo H. Seidl" Gioia del Colle 4.12.1974-22.7.1977; IRAN 22.7.1977-29.8.1978
delivery date 10 Gruppo CIO 9 Stormo "Francesco Baracca" 25.9.1978; 9-33 10.1978-14.3.1984; 2.IRAN 14.3.1984-1.12.1984
delivery date 10°Gruppo 18.12.1984; delivery date RSV 9.4.1984, till 18.2.1986; delivery date 10°Gruppo 18.2.1986, 9-43 03.1986-14.6.1989
3.IRAN + F-104S.ASA conversion 14.6.1989-25.9.1990; delivery date 21 Gruppo (Tiger) CIO 53 Stormo "Guglielmo Chiarini" 2.10.1990, 53-14 10.1990-24.1.1995
4.IRAN 28.1.1995-25.11.1996; respray in Sky Gray camouflage scheme; delivery date 10 Gruppo CIO 9 Stormo "Francesco Baracca" 23.12.1996
9-40 03.1997-26.9.1999; Aeroporto Militare Amendola (LIBA) Allied Force (guerra di liberazione del Kosovo dalla Serbia) from November 1998-April 1999
delivery date IX Gruppo CIO 4 Stormo "Amedeo d'Aosta" 21.9.1999, 4-6 14.02.2000-22.6.2001; last flight 21.6.2001
withdrawn from use Grosseto with 4.363 flight hours, dump 31.8.2001, stored at 4°RMV-platform Grosseto AB; Grazzanise dump 21.9.2004
2005 last noted; at Sigonella AB on display at the entrance on August 22, 2008; October 2014 noted; October 2016 confirmed
41 Stormo at Sigonella in March 2017 restoration started; August 2018 on display; August 2022 noted; May 2025 noted.

37°24'30.3"N 14°55'57.3"E

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