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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:GF-80C Shooting Star
    Last Military Serial:48-0868 USAF
    Construction Number:580-2125
    Last Civil Registration:N80PP
    Compressed ID:Lockheed GF-80C sn 48-0868 USAF cn...
    Latest Owner or Location:EAA Aviation Museum, Whittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, Wisconsin

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    Dates

    Event

    1949

    Constructed as a P-80C-1-LO by Lockheed at Burbank, California, USA.

    Circa 1949

    Taken on Strength/Charge with the United States Air Force with s/n 48-0868 as a F-80C-1-LO.

    Transferred to 132nd Fighter Group, 173rd Fighter Squadron, Lincoln Army Air Field, NE.

    18 September 1950

    Involved in an incident.
    Accident took place at Ryan, TX, pilot Jack W. Hart, due to mechanical failure.

    Transferred to 132nd Fighter Interceptor Squadron, 101st Fighter Interceptor Group, Maine ANG, Dow AFB.

    21 June 1951

    Damaged.
    Hard landing at Dow AFB, ME, pilot Hartwell F. Dowling. Aircraft undershot and bounced onto runway. Aircraft written off.

    Redesignated as GF-80C.

    To National Museum of the United States Air Force Loan Program, Wright Field, Dayton, OH.
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    By July 1967


    Photographer: Bud Markel
    Notes: Photographed at EAA Aviation Museum, Oshkosh, WI.

    From 1979 to 1988

    Loaned to EAA Airventure Museum, Whittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, WI.
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    Markings Applied: FN-464, 45-8398

    8 August 1983


    Photographer: Glenn Chatfield
    Notes: At Oshkosh, WI

    November 1989

    To Paul H. Poberezny/EAA Aviation Foundation, Oshkosh, WI with new c/r N80PP.

    Markings Applied: AVE MARIA, FT-749
    The aircraft is painted in the markings of the 36th Fighter Squadron, 8th Fighter Group, based in Korea during the Korean War, as flown by John Mark, who funded the restoration.

    30 July 2001


    Photographer: Peter Clukey

    30 July 2001


    Photographer: Peter Clukey

    18 May 2011

    Civil registration, N80PP, cancelled.

    25 July 2011


    Photographer: Terry Fletcher
    Notes: At 2011 Oshkosh

    To EAA Aviation Museum, Whittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, WI.
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    Credits
     Data for airframe dossiers come from various sources. The following were used to compile this dossier...
    Internet Sources
     Accident Report.com by Michael Stowe
    Aircraft in Focus
    Aviation Archaeology
    Aviation Archaeology in Maine by Pete Noddin
    Federal Aviation Administration in the United States of America
    Forgotten Jets by Nathan Decker
    National Museum of the United States Air Force
    Warbirds Directory, 6th Edition (2013) by Geoff Goodall
    Individual Contributors
     Glenn Chatfield
    Terry Fletcher
    Mike Henniger
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