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F-104

Florida based Starfighters Aerospace
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Florida based Starfighters Aerospace has been know for years to make hundred of thousand F-104 Starfighter fans around the world happy for keeping this beautiful jet in the air. Many aviation enthusiast had witness the “The Missile With a Man In It” flying in American air shows for years. Recently the company has worked hard to move away from the air show circuit in order to focus on offering its services to the commercial space flight context. In fact Starfighters Aerospace is now able to provide services to a broad range of clients that go from University projects/experiments to complex Engineering R&D scenarios or DoD supporting missions.
Starfighters Inc, based in Clearwater, Florida, began as a private venture to restore and fly three former Canadair CF-104 Starfighters at air shows across the United States and Canada. Initially their CF-104s consisted of a two-seat CF-104D Serial#:104632 (registered as N104RB), and two single-seat CF-104s Serial#s: 104850 (registered as N104RD) and 104759 (registered as N104RN). The aircraft were originally operated with the Royal Canadian Air Force and all later served with the Royal Norwegian Air Forcebefore being imported into the U.S. in the early 1990s.In recent years the company has cut back on air show appearances as they have transitioned to using their aircraft for government and private contract work, providing high-performance photo chase planes on flight tests, simulating enemy aircraft in military defense exercises, and modelling ballistic missiles for detection system evaluation.

In summer 2011 the company acquired five additional aircraft. Three are two-seat TF-104G and the other two are F-104S versions built by Fiat for the Italian Air Force in the late 1970s.

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