Matteo Marianeschi of Aviation-Report.com sent me an interesting update dealing with the so-called “Warner Village F-104”. As I wrote in my previous post here, the aircraft was removed from his previous location in Rome for an unknown destination (or trashed). Matteo met a truck that was carrying the MM6833 somewhere on May 9, 2008, on the A1 highway, next to Arezzo, Tuscany. Amazingly, as the pictures show, the F-104 was almost completely cleaned and wears an unknown badge below the “5-25” code on the right hand side of the fuselage.
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.
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Hello David.
Interesting photos….my feeling says it is not the aircraft which was dumped near the Rome International Airport and painted with gravity. That was MM6785 with tail from 6833. This aircraft on the truck looks far more complete and different from the MM6785 when looking at all the photos taken of it. I have no clue which aircraft this really is… Interesting!!!
Hello David.
Interesting photos….my feeling says it is not the aircraft which was dumped near the Rome International Airport and painted with gravity. That was MM6785 with tail from 6833. This aircraft on the truck looks far more complete and different from the MM6785 when looking at all the photos taken of it. I have no clue which aircraft this really is… Interesting!!!
Hi Harry,
I actually discovered what had happened and solved the mistery:
http://cencio4.wordpress.com/2008/08/25/the-mm6833-mistery-solved/
There had been a mistake.