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    Airframe Family: Lockheed L-80/P-80/T-33/TO/TV Shooting Star / T2V Sea Star / CT-133 Silver Star / F-94 Starfire
    Latest Model:T-33A-5-LO
    Last Military Serial:57-0602 USAF
    Construction Number:580-1251
    Compressed ID:Lockheed T-33A-5-LO sn 57-0602 USAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Southern Museum of Flight, Birmingham, Alabama

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    Dates

    Event

    Circa 1957

    Constructed as a T-33A-5-LO by Lockheed at Burbank, California, USA.

    Circa 1958

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 57-0602.

    18 April 1978

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC).
    MASDC code unknown.
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    December 1978


    Photographer: Ken Buchanan Collection

    2 November 1979


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: T-33A Shooting Star of 95th Fighter Interceptor Training Squadron at Tyndall AFB, Florida in November 1979.

    Transferred to 325 TTW, Tyndall AFB, FL.

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number TC1376.
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    By October 1990

    To NAS New Orleans, LA as A Damage Repair Airframe.

    By October 1990

    Markings Applied: TCD76, 70602

    27 October 1990


    Photographer: Robert Nichols
    Notes: at NAS New Orleans Air Show

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    1 July 1998

    Loaned to Southern Museum of Flight, Birmingham, AL.

    Placed on display with Southern Museum of Flight, Birmingham, AL.
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    31 March 2017


    Photographer: George Trussell
    Notes: At Southern Museum of Flight


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    Credits
    Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...

    Print Sources
    U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden

    Internet Sources
    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher

    Individual Contributors
    Mike Henniger
    Robert Nichols

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