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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:GT-33A
    Last Military Serial:52-9797 USAF
    Construction Number:580-8057
    Compressed ID:Lockheed GT-33A sn 52-9797 USAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Indiana ANG 122 FW, Fort Wayne Municipal Airport / Baer Field, Fort Wayne, Indiana

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    Dates

    Event

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

    March 1954

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 52-9797.

    March 1954

    Transferred to 3525th Pilot Training Wing (Air Training Command), Williams AFB, AZ.
    Deployed to Wright-Patterson AFB, OH.

    February 1956

    Transferred to 3645th Pilot Training Wing (ATC), Laughlin AFB, TX.

    April 1957

    Transferred to 3575th Pilot Training Wing (ATC), Vance AFB, OK.

    June 1961

    Transferred to Chanute Technical Training Center (ATC), Chanute AFB, IL.

    June 1961

    Redesignated as GT-33A.

    August 1979

    Placed on display with Thunderbird Air Park, Chanute AFB, IL.

    1993

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    1993

    Loaned to Chanute Air Museum, Chanute AFB (formerly), Rantoul, IL.
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    3 August 2005


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    3 August 2005


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    6 April 2012


    Photographer: John Meneely
    Notes: Chanute Air Museum, Rantoul, IL, USA

    20 April 2013


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    Circa November 2015

    Loaned to Indiana ANG 122 FW, Fort Wayne Municipal Airport/Baer Field, Fort Wayne, IN.
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    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    U.S. Demobbed by Horrex, Ray, Boulanger, Dunn, McGhee and Wood
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
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     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
    John Meneely
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