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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-33B-1-LO
    Last Military Serial:138090 USN
    Construction Number:580-9035
    Latest Owner or Location:Air Zoo Aerospace and Science Experience, Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport, Kalamazoo, Michigan

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    Dates

    Event

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

    1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 53-5696.
    Not TOS; s/n assigned for administrative purposes for transfer to USN.

    1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 138090 as a TV-2.

    6 July 1962

    Redesignated as T-33B-1-LO.

    December 1974

    Transferred to the 309th Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Center (AMARC).

    9 May 1975

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Navy.

    To Houston Community College, Houston, TX.

    By 1993

    To Air Zoo, Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport, Kalamazoo, MI.
    Markings added: 61, 8090
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    19 July 1995


    Photographer: Mike Henniger
    Notes: Photographed at the Kalamazoo Air Zoo in Kalamazoo, Michigan.

    Markings Applied: U.S. AIR FORCE, 81 F.B.W., 31544

    24 September 2007


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    August 2013


    Photographer: Gustavo Bonilla

    To Air Zoo Aerospace and Science Experience, Kalamazoo/Battle Creek International Airport, Kalamazoo, MI.
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     U.S. Military Out of Service 2010 by Andy Marden
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     Forgotten Jets by Nathan Decker
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Mike Henniger
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