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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-94C-1-LO Starfire
    Last Military Serial:51-5623 USAF
    Construction Number:880-8119
    Last Civil Registration:N46873
    Compressed ID:Lockheed F-94C-1-LO sn 51-5623 USAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, Arizona

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-94C-1-LO by Lockheed at Burbank, California, USA.

    14 October 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 51-5623.

    Transferred to 354th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, Oxnard AFB, CA.

    Transferred to 437th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, Oxnard AFB, CA.

    Transferred to 319th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, Bunker Hill AFB, IN.

    Transferred to Minnesota ANG 179th Fighter Interceptor Squadron, Duluth APT, MN.

    November 1959

    Donated for public display.

    4 November 1969

    To Cornell Homer, Muskegon, MI with new c/r N46873.

    To Pima Air and Space Museum, Davis-Monthan AFB (South Side), Tucson, AZ.
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    20 September 1974


    Photographer: eLaReF
    Notes: At Hamiltons Yard at Tucson, Arizona

    25 April 1977

    Civil registration, N46873, cancelled.

    By 1991

    Markings Applied: U.S. AIR FORCE, FA-623, 15623

    11 August 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    11 August 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    11 August 1991


    Photographer: Robert Nichols

    Circa 1996


    Photographer: Ken Videan
    Notes: At the Pima Museum, Arizona.

    Circa 13 June 1997


    Photographer: Stephen Wood, Susex, UK
    Notes: Picture taken on facility trip with BMW for launch of BMW R1200C motorcycle. Scanned from transparency.

    16 October 2000


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Pima Air and Space Museum, Tucson, AZ.

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger

    9 September 2011


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
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     Aerial Visuals - The Locator by Mike Henniger, Senior Editor
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Forgotten Jets by Nathan Decker
    Pima Air and Space Museum
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Mike Henniger
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