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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:53-5215 USAF
    Construction Number:580-8554
    Last Civil Registration:N8361
    Compressed ID:Lockheed T-33A-1-LO sn 53-5215 USAF...
    Latest Owner or Location:Fort Worth Aviation Museum, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, Texas

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    Dates

    Event

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

    Circa 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 53-5215.

    From May 1973 to By 1988

    To Honolulu Community College, Honolulu, HI with new c/r N8361.
    Operated with markings: USAF, 0-35215
    Used as a ground instruction airframe.

    November 1988

    To Jack A. Myers, Half Moon Bay, CA keeping c/r N8361.

    From By 1990 to By 1995

    To Coleman Warbird Museum, Coleman, TX keeping c/r N8361.

    From By 1991 to By 1992

    To Dixie Air Parts, San Antonio, TX keeping c/r N8361.
    Stored dismantled.

    From December 1995 to By 2006

    To David H. Clark, Grand Prairie, TX keeping c/r N8361.
    Taken on by Mr Clark as a restoration project.

    By 2003

    To Texas Air Command Museum Inc, Grand Prairie, TX keeping c/r N8361.

    Placed on display with Vintage Flying Museum, Fort Worth Meacham Airport/Meacham Field, Dallas-Fort Worth, TX.
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    26 April 2007

    Civil registration, N8361, cancelled.

    14 May 2013

    Civil registration, N8361, cancelled.

    23 July 2015


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Fort Worth Aviation Museum, Meacham Airport, TX.

    19 August 2017


    Photographer: Tom Tessier
    Notes: At Fort Worth Aviation Museum, TX.

    To Fort Worth Aviation Museum, Meacham Field, Fort Worth, TX.
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    26 April 2024


    Photographer: John Bennett
    Notes: Taken at Fort Worth - Meacham Field, TX, USA
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     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2007 by Andy Marden
    Warbirds Directory, 5th Edition by Geoff Goodall
    Internet Sources
     Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Fort Worth Aviation Museum
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Noah Rechtin
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