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According to Dan Dempsey's superb book on Canadian display teams, The Red Indians, comprised five CF104s (4 + solo, although they appear to have fielded a nine aircraft team in 1971) from 421 (Red Indian) Squadron, RCAF, and based at CFB Baden-Soellingen, WG. The book also states that the team was in existence in 1970, 1971, 1973, 1977 and 1978. Having said that I seem to recall photographing a CF104 with a red fuselage and white fuselage marking as part of Baden's 50th anniversary celebration at Mildenhall in 1983 when the last three operational squadrons each painted an aircraft in squadron colours.
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