RF-104G "RF-206", ex 23+22 displayed in Ellinopyrgos, Greece 2019

F-104G, construction number 683D-7206, company model 683-10-19, built by Messerschmitt (MTT)
manufactured by South Group (ARGE-Süd); assembly by Messerschmitt-Manching starting December 22, 1964
assembly in Fighterbomber version according contract lot 8; first flight May 3, 1965 coded KE+506; acceptance date July 13, 1965 by BABwMTT
modification level "Prince" as Fighterbomber (for MFG 2) with "AS.30" anti-ship missile delivery system, Sidewinder missile launch rails and long range tanks
camouflage scheme "Norm 62" according tech order "TA-196"
VB+249 MFG 2 at Eggebek AB delivery date on July 26, 1965
23+22 heavily damaged on April 13, 1971 after leaving runway after landing at Eggebek Air Base, repaired at MBB and back to MFG 2 on August 14, 1972
Navy camouflage scheme "Norm 76" according tech order "TA-196-3" in 1972; RF-104G modification at MBB on July 9, 1975
October 16, 1978 to MBB for the MARINE-Recce version according tech order "TA-1401" with Side Oblique Camera (SOC) KS-87B
MFG 2 on December 19, 1978 as 1st modified RF-104 with the SOC equipment; LVR 1 "F-104 Kommando" May 5, 1987
Luftwaffenschleuse 11 for AN/ALE-40(N) Chaff/Flare countermeasure dispenser equipment according tech order "TA-1469" on April 18, 1983, back to MFG 2 on May 20, 1983
WTD 61 on September 2, 1987; withdrawn from use at LwSchleuse 11 on October 14, 1987 with 2.913 flight hours; struck off charge order (AVA) October 21, 1988
MAP (Military Assistance Program) to Hellenic Air Force on November 17, 1988; coded "RF-206" to 116 Pterix at Araxos AB; last flight and 
withdrawn from use March 2, 1993 at 132 CG (later HAF Detachment Agrinion)
November 17, 2005 HAF HQ approved an F-104G to be displayed in Ellinopyrgos, Attika; transported to KEA Hellinikon for maintenance on May 25, 2006
preserved in Ellinopyrgos, some 25 km W of the city of Karditsa, a city in western Thessaly in mainland Greece, it arrived on August 4, 2006; March 2021 last noted.

Project "Prince": 25 Fighterbomber for the 2. Staffel (Squadron) of MFG 2 at Eggebek with built-in Vulcan M61 20 mm machine gun, 
AS.30 "Kormoran" anti-ship missile delivery wiring system, long-distance tanks and Sidewinder launchers as loose equipment

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