19-4290 was registered in March 2005

This 1991 BAe-146 flew out of Belgium as OO-MJE with several Brussels based airlines. Converted to an air tanker by Neptune Aviation Services, it was registered N475NA in 2016.

Over the years, NASA operated eleven Lockheed Starfighters for flight test purposes. Most were transferred from USAF inventory, but this aircraft is the first of three built by Lockheed expressly for NASA in 1963. Designated F-104N, and coded 011, NASA gave it the civilian registration N811NA in 1970. With it's last official NASA research flight on October 23, 1987, the aircraft was stored at Edwards AFB until transferred for display on the campus of Embry Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott, AZ circa 1997.