This folder contains a repaint for the Lockheed F-104G by SimSkunkWorks for MSFS2020. It shows F-104G NASA 012 [N812NA] F-104N (F-104G type), construction number: 683C-4053. This F-104N was officially delivered to the NASA in July 1963 but was added to the official NASA list on September 30th, 1963 and eventually flown over to the NASA facility (by Joe Walker) on October 1, 1963 for high speed chase flights coded NASA 012; from the beginning it flew with code "012" and this very bright NASA color scheme. In 1970 it was resprayed into the well known white-dark blue-light blue scheme which later on changed into white-blue-white. It got also recoded into N812NA. The last big project for N812NA as chase plane was the X-29 development program which was in 1985. Its operational career ended on December 29, 1986 when NASA pilot Einar Enevoldson made the last flight and wrote the last of 4442 flights in total in the aircraft logbook. The NASA stored the N812NA at Edwards and used it also for spare parts to keep the other 104s in the air. After the last Starfighter operations within the NASA ended also this N812NA was dropped from the inventory and was prepared to become a display aircraft. First at USAF Flight Test Museum at Edwards AFB till at least 1997, then it moved to Lockheed-Martin in Palmdale where they converted the aircraft into an XF-104 replica by removing some vital parts including inlet-cones and top fairing. It was put on display in 2002 near Plant 42 "Skunk Works" in bare metal with no markings; September 2005 preserved at Palmdale carrying the old NASA colors with code "012". They did not change it back to standard F-104G/N but the inlet cones were just painted instead. Repaint by Jan Kees Blom, based on the paintkit by SSW.
CalsFM
This livery is beyond beautiful. Is there any chance you could make it for the two-seater? Still flying that one! Picking out my aircraft and livery for tomorrow's scheduled Artemis I launch.
JustSeanC
is this for their TF-104G or their FR-104G?
jankees author
The single seater
2 years ago
jca2982
Thank you so much for doing this livery! It's beautiful and will get a ton of use on my X-15 training flights.