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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:56-1710 USAF
    Construction Number:580-1060
    Compressed ID:Lockheed GT-33A sn 56-1710 USAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:Wings Over The Rockies Air and Space Museum, Denver, CO

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    Dates

    Event

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

    1 April 1957

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 56-1710.

    June 1957

    To 31st Fighter-Bomber Wing, Turner AFB, GA.

    August 1958

    Transferred to 31st Tactical Fighter Wing, Turner AFB, GA.

    June 1959

    Transferred to 4138th Strategic Wing, Turner AFB, GA.

    June 1961

    Transferred to 306th Bomb Wing, Strategic Air Command, MacDill AFB, FL.

    Transferred to 321st Strategic Wing, McCoy AFB, FL.

    October 1975

    Redesignated as GT-33A.
    Assigned as a ground trainer to Lowry AFB, CO.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    By October 1975

    To Wings Over the Rockies Museum, Lowry Field (formerly Lowry AFB), Denver, CO.
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    24 August 1979


    Photographer: Paul Thallon
    Notes: 1979 photo at Lowry Air Force base of a Lockheed T-33A Shooting Star

    Circa 1 March 1987


    Photographer: Daniel Burk
    Notes: Lowry AFB, CO

    1994

    Loaned to Wings Over The Rockies Air and Space Museum, Denver, CO.
    Joined the museums collection when Lowry closed in 1994.

    24 February 2011


    Photographer: John Meneely

    10 August 2019


    Photographer: Max Sabin

    28 August 2023


    Photographer: Max Sabin
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     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
     Mike Henniger
    Max Sabin
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