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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:TV-2 Shooting Star
    Last Military Serial:137998 USMC
    Construction Number:580-8848
    Compressed ID:Lockheed TV-2 sn 137998 USMC cn 580...
    Latest Owner or Location:South Dakota ANG - 114th FW, Sioux Falls, South Dakota

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    Dates

    Event

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

    Circa 1953

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 53-5509.

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Navy with BuNo 137998 as a TV-2.

    By 1959

    Transferred to NARTU Los Alamitos, CA.
    Operated with markings: 7L-993

    By 1975

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Marine Corps with BuNo 137998.

    Transferred to VMF-321.
    Operated with markings: MG-11, MARINES

    17 June 1975

    Struck off Strength/Charge from the United States Marine Corps.

    After 17 June 1975

    Transferred to the Military Aircraft Storage and Disposal Center (MASDC) with inventory number 3T091.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    Loaned to SD ANG (Sioux Falls), 114 FW/CCE, Sioux Falls, SD.

    To South Dakota ANG-114th FW, Sioux Falls, SD.
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    Circa 2012


    Photographer: Dick Logan via Fargo Air Museum

    24 March 2021


    Photographer: Max Sabin
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