@ Estrella Warbird Museum, Paso Robles, CA
August 2017
220 of these TF-104G combat-capable trainer based on the F-104G were produced. A pair of two-seat TF-104Gs and a single-seat F-104G joined the NASA Dryden inventory in June 1975. NASA’s Dryden Flight Research Center flew Lockheed F-104 Starfighters in a wide variety of missions beginning in August 1956. Over the next 38 years, 11 were operated by NASA Dryden, at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., with the last Starfighter flight taking place in February 1994. Nikon D7100 w/18-200mm, processed with Aperture.
