Yesterday I made a second inspection of the MM6833. I took some more pictures and had a better look at the cockpit. I was looking to the right console when I noticed that the Matricola Militare of the frontal section of the relic is MM6785 as you can see from picture below:
David Cenciotti is a journalist based in Rome, Italy. He is the Founder and Editor of “The Aviationist”, one of the world’s most famous and read military aviation blogs. Since 1996, he has written for major worldwide magazines, including Air Forces Monthly, Combat Aircraft, and many others, covering aviation, defense, war, industry, intelligence, crime and cyberwar. He has reported from the U.S., Europe, Australia and Syria, and flown several combat planes with different air forces. He is a former 2nd Lt. of the Italian Air Force, a private pilot and a graduate in Computer Engineering. He has written five books and contributed to many more ones.
My previous post dealing with the so-called Warner Village F-104 that I published here: http://cencio4.wordpress.com/2008/08/15/the-mm6833-or-6785-mistery/ ended with the following question: “Which F-104 was on the truck on May 9 2008 and where was it going?”. […]
Last year I visited the relic of an F-104 wearing code 5-25 and tail serial MM6833 (even if it was a composite and the centre section belonged to the MM6785). As I explained in 3 […]
Wednesday, 27 February 2008 Rome Fiumicino (FCO) – New York John F. Kennedy (JFK) Flight: AZ 610 Scheduled departure time: 13:50 Type of aircraft: Boeing B 767-343/ER Registration: EI-CRM “Amerigo Vespucci” Since I preferred flying […]
This image saddens me.