Ex-104632 CF-104D starting it's flight profile at the 2006 Oceana show

Another extraordinary formation during the Italian Air Force anniversary festivities

An alternative view to my upload at #579764. One of the absolute stars of the Italian AF 100th anniversary celebrations in 2023

High winds meant the F-104 could not go airborne at the Titusville air show, however, knowing what the crowd wanted to hear, they were treated with some fast taxi runs...

unusual past-present formation with Typhoon, F-35 and F-86

coloured tail to celebrate 100 years of Italian Air Force

Re-flown in Italy just four days earlier following delivery to Grosseto aboard an AMI C-130J. Seen here taxiing back after its first ever display performance, in formation with other jet types, N991SF served with the Aeronautica Militare at Grosseto as MM54258 from 1964 until 2004 and is now based at the NASA Space Center, Florida. It is the first Straighter to fly in Europe since the ex R Norwegian AF CF-104D LN-STF was grounded in 2018 with ejector seat issues. Starfighters Aerospace have recently restored to flight a single -seat F-104S, also ex Italian.

Took part in the amazing flying display during the 100th anniversary air show of the Italian AF.

These Starfighters were ex Canadian Air Force and I think they also served with the Norwegian Air Force. CF-104D N104RB ex 104632 CF-104G N104RD ex 104850 CF-104G N104RN ex 104759

Ex Canadian Air Force 104759. This was registered to RLB Aviation in Aug 2007, and was one of several CF-104s flown by the Starfighters Inc. demo team at the time. In later years they acquired more Starfighters from Italy and have since focused on private and government contract work and changed their name to Starfighters Aerospace.