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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:F-94A Starfire
    Last Military Serial:49-2498 USAF
    Construction Number:780-7020
    Compressed ID:Lockheed F-94A sn 49-2498 USAF cn 7...
    Latest Owner or Location:National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, Ohio

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    Dates

    Event

    Constructed as a F-94A-5-LO by Lockheed at Burbank, California, USA.

    Circa 1950

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 49-2498.

    1950

    Transferred to Flight Testing Division, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH.

    1950

    Redesignated as EF-94A.

    26 September 1950

    Damaged.
    Take Off Accident due to Mechanical Failure, at Wright Field, OH.

    Redesignated as JF-94A.

    Loaned to Bendix Corporation.

    Circa 1954

    Redesignated as F-94A.

    Circa 1954

    Transferred to 101st Fighter Interceptor-Squadron (ANG), 102nd Fighter Group, Logan Airport, Boston, MA.

    May 1957

    Ferry flight. Delivered to United States Air Force Museum, Patterson Field (East Side), Dayton, OH.
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    July 1971

    Transported by ground. Delivered to National Museum of the United States Air Force, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    28 July 1986


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    Markings Applied: FA-498

    19 September 2023


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield

    22 August 2024


    Photographer: Austin Newman
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