Daron Postage Stamp PS5377-3 F-104 Starfighter 479th Tactical Fighter Wing 1-120 PS5377-3

F-104 Star fighter 479th tactical fighter wing (1: 120) the Lockheed f-104 Star fighter is a single-engine, supersonic high-altitude fighter aircraft. It was originally developed for the US Air Force, but later was operated by the Armed Forces of more than a dozen nations from 1958 to 2004. The f-104 was designed with a unique set of extremely thin trapezoidal wings and was the first combat aircraft capable of sustained Mach 2 flight. It set numerous World records, including both airspeed and altitude records, and was the first aircraft to have held both records simultaneously. aircraft 56-901 served with the U.S. Air Force during the height of the cold War in the 1960S. This aircraft set the altitude and speed record for an operational f-104c reaching 92, 000 feet at a speed of 2.5 Mach while stationed in Hahn Germany with the 479th tactical fighter wing in 1962.