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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-5-LO
    Last Military Serial:NASA 512 NASA
    Construction Number:580-9522
    Last Civil Registration:N512NA
    Compressed ID:Lockheed T-33A-5-LO sn NASA 512 NAS...
    Latest Owner or Location:Minnesota Air National Guard Museum, Minnesota ANG - 133rd AW, Minneapolis - Saint Paul, Minnesota

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a T-33A-5-LO by Lockheed at Burbank, California, USA.

    Circa 1955

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 55-3025.

    To James Connally AFB, TX.

    Transferred to Nellis AFB, NV.

    2 September 1965

    Transferred to 3540th PTW, Laredo AFB, TX.

    3 October 1965

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

    1 December 1966

    Transferred to 4453rd CCTW, Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ.

    From 4 May 1967 to 1969

    Transferred to 62nd FIS, K. I. Sawyer AFB, MI.

    From 17 December 1969 to 27 March 1973

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the National Aeronautics and Space Administration with s/n NASA 512.

    To NASA with new c/r N512NA.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Loaned to MN Ang (Saint Paul), 133 MXG/CC, Saint Paul, MN.

    Placed on display with Minnesota Air National Guard Museum, Minnesota ANG-133rd AW, Minneapolis-Saint Paul, MN.
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    6 May 2006


    Photographer: Bill Kistler

    After May 2006

    Markings Applied: MINN ANG, 29806
    Depicted as T-33A 52-9806 that was assigned to the 109th FIS, MN ANG, in the mid-1950s.

    25 April 2015


    Photographer: Max Sabin
    Notes: Taken during the first Open Cockpit Day of 2015. This event is no longer held by the MNANG museum due to heightened security concerns.

    25 April 2015


    Photographer: Max Sabin

    25 April 2015


    Photographer: Max Sabin
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    Print Sources
     U.S. Military Out of Service 2007 by Andy Marden
    Internet Sources
     Air Force Historical Research Agency
    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    United States Military Services Serial Number Lists by Joe Baugher
    Individual Contributors
     Max Sabin
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