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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
    Last Military Serial:52-9843 USAF
    Construction Number:580-8149
    Last Civil Registration:N58417
    Latest Owner or Location:Wurtsmith Air Museum, Oscoda-Wurtsmith Airport (formerly Wurtsmith AFB), Oscoda, Michigan

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a T-33A.

    20 April 1954

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 52-9843.

    April 1954

    Transferred to 2465th Air Reserve Training Center, Minneapolis-Saint. Paul, MN.

    June 1955

    Transferred to 2584th Air Reserve Flying Center (AFRES), Memphis MAP TN.

    October 1957

    Transferred to 808th Air Base Group (Tactical Air Command), Bergstrom AFB, TX.

    September 1959

    Transferred to 42nd Combat Support Group (SAC), Loring AFB, ME.

    July 1962

    Transferred to 380th Bombardment Wing, Plattsburg AFB, NY.

    To Detroit Education Board, Detroit, MI with new c/r N58417.

    Based at Benjamin Oliver Davis Junior Aerospace Technical High School, Coleman A. Young Municipal Airport (DET), Detroit, MI.
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    10 August 1977

    Civil registration, N58417, cancelled.

    To Wurtsmith Air Museum, Oscoda-Wurtsmith Airport (formerly Wurtsmith AFB), Oscoda, MI.
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    30 August 2012

    Civil registration, N58417, cancelled.

    8 May 2017


    Photographer: Robert Oakes
    Notes: 52-9843 at the Wordsmith air museum. Plans are in work to get her cleaned up and restored for outdoor display. She has both cockpits virtually intact.
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
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     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
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