Lockheed 583-04-15 CF-104D Starfighter Mk.1

Lockheed 583-04-15 CF-104D Starfighter Mk.1

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Delivered to the RCAF as 12641, renumbered 104641 in 1970. Now at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada.

The following text from Aviation Week is not unique to the aircraft pictured:
01/04/1960. USAF Captain J. B. Jordan received the General Electric Trophy for setting a world altitude record of 103,395 ft (31,515 m) in an F-104C intercepter. In the same flight he set a 98,425 ft (30,000 m) time-to-climb record of 15 min, 4.92 sec. This exceeded the record set a week earlier by a US Navy McDonnell F4H.


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Delivered to the RCAF as 12641, renumbered 104641 in 1970. Now at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. The following text from Aviation Week is not unique to the aircraft pictured: 01/04/1960. USAF Captain J. B. Jordan received the General Electric Trophy for setting a world altitude record of 103,395 ft (31,515 m) in an F-104C intercepter. In the same flight he set a 98,425 ft (30,000 m) time-to-climb record of 15 min, 4.92 sec. This exceeded the record set a week earlier by a US Navy McDonnell F4H.