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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:F-94B Starfire
    Last Military Serial:48-0356 USAF
    Construction Number:580-5001
    Latest Owner or Location:Air Force Flight Test Center Museum, Edwards AFB, Palmdale, California

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a TF-80C-1-LO by Lockheed at Burbank, California, USA.

    Circa 1948

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 48-0356.

    22 March 1948

    First flight.
    First flight Mar 22, 1948 at Van Nuys, CA.

    Circa 1949

    Converted to a T-33A-1-LO by Lockheed at Burbank, California, USA.

    By April 1949

    Converted to a YF-94A.
    Converted to YF-94A Model 780 prototype.

    16 April 1949

    First flight as a YF-94.

    Converted to a F-94B.
    Model 780 prototype F-94B.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    By October 1978

    Placed on display with Airmen Heritage Training Complex, Kelly Field (formerly Kelly AFB), San Antonio, TX.
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    Markings Applied: FA-356

    14 October 1978


    Photographer: Peter Nicholson
    Notes: The F-94 Starfire prototype was in the USAF History and Traditions Museum at Lackland AFB, Texas in 1978 and is now at Edwards AFB at the Flight Test Centre.

    Loaned to 95 ABW/MU, Edwards AFB, CA.

    By 2003

    Placed on display with Air Force Flight Test Center Museum, Edwards AFB, Palmdale, CA.
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    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee amp; Wood
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher

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