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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-33 Shooting Star
    Last Military Serial:53-6053 USAF
    Compressed ID:Lockheed T-33 sn 53-6053 USAF
    Latest Owner or Location:Tiger Stadium, Baton Rouge, Louisiana

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a T-33.

    Circa 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 53-6053.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Loaned to Afrotc, DET 310, LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY (BATON ROUGE), Baton Rouge, LA.

    From Unknown to By 30 December 2018

    Placed on display with Tiger Stadium, Baton Rouge, LA.
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    Photographer: Paul Trahan

    January 2020

    Stephen Wagner comments (5 January 2022): I painted this aircraft January 2020. The T-33 was then about two blocks from the location that is shown in the picture. It was close to the entrance to the ROTC building.
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