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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-1-LO
    Last Military Serial:53-4897 USAF
    Construction Number:580-8236
    Compressed ID:Lockheed T-33A-1-LO sn 53-4897 USAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 2219, Fall River, Wisconsin

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a T-33A-1-LO by Lockheed at Burbank, California, USA.

    24 May 1954

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 53-4897.

    May 1954

    To 4700th Air Base Group (Air Defense Command), Steward AFB NY.

    September 1954

    Transferred to 4700th Air Defense Group (ADC), Stewart AFB.

    January 1956

    To 329th Fighter Group (ADC), Stewart AFB.

    TDY to Dallas MAP, TX.

    TDY to Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ.

    January 1957

    Transferred to 329th Consolidated Maintenance Squadron (ADC), Stewart AFB.

    TDY to Selfridge AFB, MI.

    August 1959

    Transferred to 4603D Consolidated Maintenance Squadron (ADC), Stewart AFB.

    TDY to Burlington MAP, VT.

    September 1960

    Transferred to 437th FIS, 414th FIG, Oxnard AFB, CA.

    September 1968

    Transferred to 23D Tactical Fighter Wing (Tactical Air Command), McConnell AFB KS.

    April 1969

    Transferred to 121st TFS, 113th TFW, TAC, Washington DC ANG, Myrtle Beach AFB SC.
    The 113th TFW was activated to federal service, and its personnel were assigned to Myrtle Beach AFB, South Carolina as a filler unit while the bases permanent unit, the 354th TFW was deployed to Kunsan Air Base, South Korea.

    May 1969

    Transferred to 4554th Combat Crew Training Wing (TAC), Myrtle Beach AFB.

    February 1970

    Transferred to 474th Tactical Fighter Wing (TAC), Nellis AFB NV.

    January 1971

    Transferred to 4500th Air Base Wing (TAC), Langley AFB VA.

    February 1971

    Permanently withdrawn from use.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    After 1971

    Placed on display with Veterans of Foreign Wars (VFW) Post 2219, Fall River, WI.
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    2008


    Photographer: Andy West

    29 July 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: 2011 photo at Fall River
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2007 by Andy Marden
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    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Max Sabin
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