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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:53-5250 USAF
    Construction Number:580-8589
    Latest Owner or Location:Military Aircraft Preservation Society (MAPS) Air Museum, Akron-Canton Airport, North Canton, Ohio

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    Dates

    Event

    1954

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

    28 September 1954

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 53-5250.

    September 1954

    Transferred to Headquarters Squadron, 10th Air Force, Continental Air Command, Selfridge AFB, MI.

    1957

    Transferred to 93rd Fighter-Bomber Squadron/439th Fighter-Bomber Group, Selfridge AFB, MI.

    December 1957

    Transferred to 2242nd Air Reserve Flying Center, Selfridge AFB, MI.

    October 1958

    Transferred to Detachment 1, 2465th Material Squadron, USAFR, Selfridge AFB, MI.

    May 1959

    Transferred to 3800th Air Base Wing (Air University), Maxwell AFB, AL.

    October 1963

    Transferred to Wisconsin ANGB, Mitchell Field, Milwaukee, WI.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    November 1963

    To EAA Airventure Museum, Whittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, WI.
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    Markings Applied: TR-250, U.S. AIR FORCE, 62-95073

    12 June 1964

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Air Force.

    8 August 1983


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Oshkosh, WI

    30 July 2001


    Photographer: Peter Clukey
    Notes: At EAA Museum, Oshkosh, WI

    25 July 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2011 Oshkosh

    12 October 2011

    Loaned to Military Aircraft Preservation Society (MAPS) Air Museum, Akron-Canton Airport, North Canton, OH.
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    May 2013


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    August 2015


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla
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    Euro Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    MAPS Air Museum
    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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