One of the three F-104 modified for NASA improvement pilots. In service 9/63 to 1/87 and 4442 flights. Aircraft is located before entering to Lockheed Martin, in Palmdale, CA.
Crashed in bad weather on March 18, 1953 near Burgoynes Cove, Newfoundland, Canada. Brigadier General Richard Ellsworth was among the twenty-three airmen killed in the crash.
