CF-104 "821" (12821) Canadian Armed Forces 3 Wing team during the Tactical Weapon Meet at Wildenrath in June 1967

CF-104, Canadair model CL-90, Lockheed model 683-04-12, Canadair construction number 683A-1121, RCAF serial number 12821, built by Canadair
delivery date to RCAF coded 12821 on October 2, 1962 for 3 Wing of 1 AD in Europe; reserialed as 104821 effective June 2, 1970
April 19, 1971 to Prestwick for incident repair; December 6, 1971 back to Sollingen; August 1, 1974 to SAL for cannon installation; June 10, 1975 to SAL for IRAN
December 6, 1978 to NWI for DLIR; return to Sollingen
crashed with 439 sqn of 1 CAG from CFB Sollingen on January 10, 1983 after engine failure due to foreign object damage (FOD), pilot ejected safely
struck of service on November 23, 1983.

SAL: Scottish Aviation Limited, Prestwick, UK
NMI: North West Industries, Edmonton
DLIR: Depot Level Inspection and Repair

copyright @ Henk Schakelaar

"Tactical Weapons Meet” was an exercise between teams of the Second Allied Tactical Air Force (2ATAF) and 4 ATAF.
2ATAF had teams from the Royal Netherlands Air Force, the Belgian Air Force, RAF Germany and the northern part of West Germany.
4ATAF consisted of teams of the southern part of West Germany, the Canadian Armed Forces and USAFE.
In many years the French Air Force participated with a guest team.