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General Characteristics

• Crew: 1
• Length: 34 ft 5 in (10.49 m)
• Wingspan: 38 ft 9 in (11.81 m)
• Height: 11 ft 3 in (3.43 m)
• Wing area: 237.6 sq ft (22.07 m²)
• Aspect ratio: 6.37
• Airfoil: NACA 65-213
• Empty weight: 8,420 lb (3,819 kg)
• Gross weight: 12,200 lb (5,534 kg)
• Max takeoff weight: 16,856 lb (7,646 kg)
• Zero-lift drag coefficient: 0.0134
• Frontal area: 32 sq ft (3.0 m²)
• Powerplant: 1 × Allison J33-A-35 centrifugal compressor turbojet, 4,600 lbf (20 kN) thrust dry, 5,400 lbf (24 kN) with water injection

Performance

• Maximum speed: 594 mph (956 km/h, 516 kn) at sea level
• Maximum speed: Mach 0.76
• Cruise speed: 439 mph (707 km/h, 381 kn)
• Range: 825 mi (1,328 km, 717 nmi)
• Ferry range: 1,380 mi (2,220 km, 1,200 nmi)
• Service ceiling: 46,800 ft (14,300 m)
• Rate of climb: 6,870 ft/min (34.9 m/s)
• Time to altitude: 20,000 ft (6,100 m) in 5 minutes 30 seconds
• Lift-to-drag: 17.7
• Wing loading: 51.3 lb/sq ft (250 kg/m²)
• Thrust/weight: 0.364, 0.435 with water injection.

Armament

• Guns: 6 × 0.50 in (12.7mm) M3 Browning machine guns (300 rpg)
• Rockets: 8 × 127 mm (5.00 in) HVAR unguided rockets
• Bombs: 2 × 1,000 lb (450 kg) bombs

Variants

1714 production aircraft were delivered to the Air Force prior to any conversions or redesignations, with their original block numbers.

• XP-80 – Prototype powered by a de Havilland-built Halford H.1B turbojet and first flown 8 January 1944, one built.
• XP-80A – Production prototype variant powered by a General Electric I-40 turbojet, increased span and length but wing area reduced, two built.
• YP-80A – 12 pre-production aircraft. One aircraft, 44-83027, lent to Rolls-Royce Limited and used for development of the Neneengine.
• XF-14 – One built from YP-80A order (44-83024), lost in midair collision with B-25 Mitchell chase plane on 6 December 1944; USAAF photo reconnaissance prototype.
• P-80A – 344 block 1-LO aircraft; 180 block 5-LO aircraft. Block 5 and all subsequent Shooting Stars were natural metal finish. Fitted with 225 US gal (187 imp gal; 850 l) tiptanks.
• F-80A – USAF designation of P-80A.
• EF-80 – Modified to test “Prone Pilot” cockpit positions.
• F-14A – Unknown number of photo-reconnaissance conversions from P-80A, all redesignated FP-80A.
• XFP-80A – Modified P-80A 44–85201 with hinged nose for camera equipment.
• FP-80A – 152 block 15-LO; operational photo reconnaissance aircraft.
• RF-80A – USAF designation of FP-80A, 66 operational F-80A’s modified to RF-80A standard.
• ERF-80A – Modified P-80A 44–85042 with experimental nose contour.
• XP-80B – Reconfigured P-80A, improved J-33 engine, one built as prototype for P-80B
• P-80B – 209 block 1-LO; 31 block 5-LO; first model fitted with an ejection seat (retrofitted into -As)
• F-80B – USAF designation of P-80B.
• P-80R – Modification of XP-80B to racer.
• P-80C – 162 block 1-LO; 75 block 5-LO; 561 block 10-LO
• F-80C – USAF designation of P-80C; 128 F-80A modified to F-80C-11-LO with J-33-A-35 engine and ejection seat installed; fitted with 260 US gal (220 imp gal; 980 l) tiptanks; major P-80 production version.
• RF-80C – 70 modified F-80A and F-80C, and six modified RF-80A, to RF-80C and RF-80C-11, respectively; upgraded photo recon plane.
• DF-80A – Designation given to number of F-80As converted into drone directors.
• QF-80A/QF-80C/QF-80F – Project Bad Boy F-80 conversions by Sperry Gyroscope to target drones. Q-8 was initially proposed as designation for the QF-80.
• TP-80C – First designation for TF-80C trainer prototype.
• TF-80C – Prototype for T-33 (48-0356).
• TO-1/TV-1 – U.S. Navy variant of F-80C; 49 block 1-LO and one block 5-LO aircraft transferred to USN in 1949; 16 initially went to U.S. Marine Corps.

On Display

Brazil

F-80C

• 49-0433 – Museu Aeroespacial in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Chile

• 49-0787 – Museo Nacional Aeronautico y del Espacio, Los Cerrillos Airport, Santiago, Chile.

United States

• 44-83020 (Lulu-Belle) – National Air and Space Museum in Washington, D.C.. First flown on 8 January 1944, it was restored right after the 1976 opening of the National Air and Space Museum and is still in their collection.

P-80A

• 44-84999 – Hill Aerospace Museum at Hill AFB, Utah. This airframe is a T-33A that has been modified and painted to resemble a P-80.
• 44-85123 – Air Force Flight Test Museum at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Currently undergoing restoration. This aircraft set transcontinental speed record in January 1946, closed circuit speed record in June 1946, and won the Thompson Trophy Race in September 1946. Was then used to test nose fairing and wing designs.
• 44-85125 (displayed as 44-85152) – Kalamazoo Air Zoo in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
• 44-85391 (front of fuselage) – Air Victory Museum, Medford, New Jersey.
• 44-85488 – Planes of Fame in Chino, California.

P-80B

• 45-8357 – Museum of Aviation at Robins Air Force Base, Warner Robins, Georgia.
• 45-8490 – Castle Air Museum at the former Castle Air Force Base in Atwater, California.
• 45-8501 – Kirtland AFB, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
• 45-8517 – Anna Jordan Park, Baton Rouge, Louisiana.
• 45-8612 – Pima Air & Space Museum adjacent to Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson, Arizona.
• 45-8704 – Aerospace Museum of California at the former McClellan AFB in Sacramento, California.

P-80C

• 47-0171 – Iowa Gold Star Military Museum, Camp Dodge, Des Moines, Iowa.
• 47-0215 – Reflections of Freedom Air Park, McConnell AFB, Wichita, Kansas.
• 47-1837 – Redesignated USMC TO-1 BuNo 33840 at the Flying Leatherneck Aviation Museum at MCAS Miramar, San Diego, California.
• 47-1392 – Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas.
• 48-0868 – EAA Airventure Museum in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
• 49-0432 (displayed as 49-417) – Air Force Armament Museum at Eglin AFB, Florida.
• 49-0696 – National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio.
• 49-0710 – Mid-America Air Museum, Liberal, Kansas.
• 49-0719 – in storage awaiting restoration at Yanks Air Museum in Chino, California.
• 49-1853 – Veteran’s Memorial Square, Holloman AFB in New Mexico.
• 49-1872 – Pueblo Weisbrod Aircraft Museum, Pueblo Memorial Airport, Pueblo, Colorado.

P-80R

• 44-85200 – National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio. This aircraft was specially modified for racing by equipping it with a smaller canopy, a shorter wing, and redesigned air intakes. On 19 June 1947, it was flown by Colonel Albert Boyd to a new world speed record of 623.73 mph (1,004.2 km/h), equaling Heini Dittmar’s 623 mph (1,004 km/h) unofficial record velocity in one of the Me 163A liquid-fueled rocket fighter prototypes, set on 2 October 1941 after being towed to the height for the attempt by a Bf 110. The P-80R aircraft was shipped to the Museum from Griffiss Air Force Base in New York in October 1954. The next American jet speed record would be set only two months later, on 20 August by Commander Turner Caldwell, USN, reaching 640.744 miles per hour (1,031.178 km/h) while flying the turbojet-powered Douglas Skystreak D-558-1 No. 1.

Uruguay

F-80C

• 47-0205 (FAU213) – Museo de la aeronautica in Montevideo, Uruguay.

F-80 Cutaway

General Characteristics

• Crew: 2
• Length: 37 ft 9 in (11.51 m)
• Wingspan: 38 ft 10.5 in (11.849 m)
• Height: 11 ft 8 in (3.56 m)
• Wing area: 234.8 sq ft (21.81 m²)
• Airfoil: NACA 65-213
• Empty weight: 8,365 lb (3,794 kg)
• Gross weight: 12,071 lb (5,475 kg)
• Max takeoff weight: 15,061 lb (6,832 kg)
• Powerplant: 1 × Allison J33-A-35 centrifugal flow turbojet engine, 5,400 lbf (24 kN) thrust for take-off with water injection, 4,600 lbf (20,461.82 N) maximum continuous, dry

Performance

• Maximum speed: 600 mph (970 km/h, 520 kn) at sea level
• Cruise speed: 455 mph (732 km/h, 395 kn)
• Range: 1,275 mi (2,052 km, 1,108 nmi)
• Service ceiling: 48,000 ft (15,000 m)
• Rate of climb: 4,870 ft/min (24.7 m/s)

Armament

• Hardpoints: 2 with a capacity of 2,000 lb (907 kg) of bombs or rockets (AT-33),

Variants

• TP-80C – Original United States military designation for the Lockheed Model 580 two-seat trainer for the United States Army Air Forces. Designation changed to TF-80C on 11 June 1948 following establishment of the United States Air Force as a separate military service in 1947, and then to T-33A on 5 May 1949; 20 built.
• T-33A – Two-seat jet trainer aircraft for the United States Air Force and delivery to foreign air forces under the Military Assistance Program, 5871 including 699 diverted to the United States Navy as the TV-2.
• AT-33A – Conversions of the T-33A for export as a close support variant fitted with underwing pylons and hard points for bombs and rockets. Also used in the original fighter lead-in program at Cannon AFB, NM approximately 1972- 1975.
• DT-33A – This designation was given to a number of T-33As converted into drone directors.
• NT-33A – This designation was given to a number of T-33As converted into special test aircraft.
• QT-33A – This designation was given to number of T-33As converted into aerial target drones for the United States Navy.
• RT-33A – T-33A modified before delivery as a single-seat reconnaissance variant; 85 built, mainly for export under the Military Assistance Program.
• T-33B – Re-designation of the United States Navy TV-2 in 1962.
• DT-33B – Re-designation of the United States Navy TV-2D drone director in 1962.
• DT-33C – Re-designation of the United States Navy TV-2KD target in 1962
• TO-1/TV-1 – U.S. Navy designation of P-80C, 50 transferred to USN in 1949 as jet trainers (not technically T-33 Shooting Star)
• TO-2 – United States Navy designation for 649 T-33As diverted from USAF production. Two-seat land-based jet training aircraft for the U.S. Navy. First 28 were delivered as TO-2s before the Navy changed the designation to TV-2. Surviving United States Navy and United States Marine Corps aircraft were re-designated T-33B on 18 September 1962.
• TV-2 – Re-designation of the TO-2 after the first 28 were built.
• TV-2D – TV-2s modified as drone directors, later re-designated DT-33B.
• TV-2KD – TV-2s modified as radio-controlled targets, could be flown as a single-seater for ferry, later re-designated DT-33C.

Canada

• Silver Star Mk 1 – Canadian-designation for T-33A, 20 delivered.
• Silver Star Mk 2 – Canadian-designation for a T-33A which became the prototype of the Silver Star Mk 3.
• T-33AN/CT-133 Silver Star Mk 3 – The T-33AN is a Rolls-Royce Nene powered-variant of the T-33A for the Royal Canadian Air Force; 656 built by Canadair with the company designation CL-30. Canadian military designation was later changed from T-33AN to CT-133.

Other

• L-245 – One Lockheed owned fuselage with a more powerful engine. Was later developed into the T2V SeaStar.
• Aérospatiale Pégase – A Canadair T-33AN was modified by Aérospatiale with an S17a 17% thickness wing section.
• Boeing Skyfox – A comprehensive upgrade and re-engine project, powered by 2 Garrett TFE-731 turbofans. The sole prototype remains parked, sans engines, at Rogue Valley International (MFR) at Medford, Oregon.

On Display

Albania

On display

• RT-33A 51-4413 of the USAF was forced to land in December 1957 at Rinas Airport (Albania) by a squadron of 2 Albanian MiG-15bis – on display at Gjirokastra Museum

Belgium

On display

• T-33 53-5724 in Wetteren.
• T-33 FT-34 (c/n 9584) of Belgian Air Force, formerly USAF 55-3043/TR-043 , at the Royal Museum of the Armed Forces and Military History in Brussels

Brazil

On display

• Unknown T-33 – Brazilian Museu Aeroespacial – Musal in Rio de Janeiro.
• Unknown T-33 – Assis Airport in Assis.
• Unknown T-33 – Brazilian Air Force Base in Fortaleza.

Burma

On display

• Unknown T-33 – Armed Forces Museum in Yangon .

Canada

Most examples in Canada are Canadair CT-133 Silver Stars

On display

• T-33A 53-5413 of the United States Air Force at Happy Valley, Goose Bay
• CT-133 on display at entrance of 4th Wing Cold Lake AB
• CT-133 #131094 on display at 4th Wing Cold Lake AB

China

On display

• A former Republic of China (Taiwan) Air Force Lockheed T-33A #3024 on static display (partially wrecked) at the Military Museum of the Chinese People’s Revolution in Beijing. This aircraft fell into Chinese hands when a lieutenant of the ROC Air Force defected to mainland China by flying the aircraft there during the Cold War.

Denmark

• T-33A RDAF DT-102 at Danmarks Flymuseum, Stauning
• T-33A RDAF DT-289 at Garnisonsmuseet, Aalborg
• T-33A RDAF DT-491 at Danmarks Tekniske Museum, Helsingør
• T-33A RDAF DT-497 a Gate Guard at RDAF Flying School
• T-33A RDAF DT-905 at Gedhus museum

Stored or under restoration

• T-33A RDAF DT-104 in storage at Aalborg Air Force Base
• T-33A RDAF DT-884 under restoration at Skrydstrup Air Force Base
• T-33A RDAF DT-923 in storage at Danmarks Tekniske Museum, Helsingør

Greece

On display

• T-33A TR-516 in the Hellenic Air Force Museum
• T-33A TR-029 in the Hellenic Air Force Museum
• T-33A TR-516 in Elatia Lokridos, near Lamia

Germany

On display

• Unknown Luftwaffe T-33 at Deutsches Museum Flugwerft Schleißheim near Munich.

Indonesia

• T-33A TS-3326 at Iswahyudi Air Force Base, Magetan, East Java
• T-33A TS-3333 at Abdul Rachman Saleh Air Force Base, Malang, East Java
• T-33A TS-3334 at Dirgantara Mandala Museum, Sleman Regency, Special Region of Yogyakarta

Italy

On display

• T-33A 9-35, 35594 at Museo storico dell’Aeronautica Militare, Vigna di Valle

Japan

On display

• T-33A 61-5221 of the JASDF Air Development and Test Command at the Kakamigahara Aerospace Science Museum, Kakamigahara, Gifu.
• T-33A 71-5293 of the JASDF 8th Air Wing at the Amagi Railway Amagi Line Tachiarai Station, Chikuzen, Fukuoka
• T-33A 51-5639 of the JASDF at Kawaguchiko Motor Museum, Minamitsuru District, Yamanashi prefecture
• T-33A 81-5386 of the JASDF at Bihoro Aviation Park in Hokkaido

Mexico

• Various T-33s are on static display at the Mexican Air Force Museum, Mexican Army and Air Force Museum and individual air bases.

Netherlands

• T-33A 51-4384 / M-50 is in storage at the Nationaal Militair Museum, Soesterberg
• T-33A 51-9028 / M-5 is in storage at the Nationaal Militair Museum, Soesterberg.

Norway

On display

• T-33A 117546 of the Royal Norwegian Air Force at the Norwegian Armed Forces Aircraft Collection, Oslo Airport, Gardermoen near Oslo
• T-33A DT-571 of the Royal Danish Air Force painted as 16571 of the Royal Norwegian Air Force at Flyhistorisk Museum, Sola, Stavanger Airport, Sola, near Stavanger

Pakistan

• T-33A at the Pakistan Air Force Museum, Karachi.

Peru

On display

• T-33A at Las Palmas Air Base, Lima.

Philippines

On display

• T-33 at the Philippine Air Force Museum at Villamor Air Base
• T-33 at the Clark Air Base Pampanga Province.
• T-33 at the Basa Air Base in Pampanga Province.
• T-33 at Camp Aquino Museum in Tarlac Province.

Saudi Arabia

• T-33A on display at the Royal Saudi Air Force Museum, Riyadh.

Serbia

On display

• T-33A Yugoslav 10024 (ex-USAF 52-9958, c/n 580-8189) at the Yugoslav Aeronautical Museum, Nikola Tesla Airport, Belgrade.

Stored or under restoration

• TV-2 Yugoslav 10242 (ex-USAF 51-4034, ex-USN 126592, c/n 580-5328) at the Yugoslav Aeronautical Museum in Belgrade.

Singapore

• A T-33A is on static display at the Republic of Singapore Air Force (RSAF) Museum.

South Korea

• A T-33A on static display at the War Memorial of Korea in Seoul.

Taiwan

On display

• T-33, 57-0532 of the Republic of China Air Force at Chung Cheng Aviation Museum.

Thailand

• T-33A F11-23/13 of the Royal Thai Air Force at the Royal Thai Air Force Museum, Don Muang AFB.
• T-33A F11-27/13 of the Royal Thai Air Force at Chitladda Palace.

Turkey

T-33A

• 55-4952 – ?nciralt?, ?zmir.
• 51-17519 – Çi?li Air Base.
• 52-9919 – Anadolu University.

RT-33A

• 1543/8-543 – Istanbul Aviation Museum.

United Kingdom

On display

• T-33A 14286 of the French Air Force on display in USAF markings at the American Air Museum, Duxford.
• T-33A 14419 of the French Air Force on display in USAF markings at the Midland Air Museum, Coventry.
• T-33A 17473 of the French Air Force on display in Royal Canadian Air Force markings at the Midland Air Museum, Coventry.
• T-33A 54439 of the French Air Force at the North East Aircraft Museum, Sunderland.
• T-33A 16718 of the French Air Force on display in USAF markings at City of Norwich Aviation Museum, Norwich
• T-33A 19252 of the French Air Force under restoration Bentwaters Cold War Museum, Suffolk.

United States

Airworthy

T-33A Shooting Star

• 50-0370 – privately owned in Riverside, California. Based at Antelope Acres, Palmdale, CA. View the location on the Google Street View
• 51-17445 – privately owned in Grove, Oklahoma.
• 51-17463 – privately owned in Concord, North Carolina.
• 51-6581 – Commemorative Air Force-Delta Squadron, General Dewitt Spain Airport, Memphis, Tennessee.
• 51-6953 – Collings Foundation in Stow, Massachusetts.
• 51-8734 – privately owned in Spring Grove, Illinois.
• 51-9127 – Warbird Heritage Foundation in Waukegan, Illinois.
• 53-6091 – Tomorrows Aeronautical Museum in Compton, California.
• 56-1749 – privately owned in Leander, Texas.
• 56-1573 – privately owned in Big Springs, Texas.
• 56-3667 – privately owned in Midlothian, Texas.
• 56-3689 – privately owned in Grove, Oklahoma.
• 57-0565 – privately owned in Flathead County, Montana.
• 57-0609 – privately owned in Nickerson, Kansas.
• 58-0471 – privately owned in Midlothian, Texas.
• 58-0665 – privately owned in Leesville, South Carolina.

Display

T-33A Shooting Star

• 51-4157 – Constitution Park in Cumberland, Maryland.
• 51-4301 – Vance Air Force Base, Enid, Oklahoma.
• 51-4335 – Camp Edwards near Otis Air Force Base in Cape Cod, Massachusetts.
• 51-4505 – Tri-County Airport west of Ahoskie, North Carolina.
• 51-6612 – Masonic Lodge in Willacoochee, Georgia, on U.S. Route 82.
• 51-6635 – American Legion Post 120, Waynesboro, Georgia.
• 51-8627 – EAA Airventure Museum, Wittman Regional Airport, Oshkosh, Wisconsin.
• 51-8880 – Beatrice Municipal Airport, Beatrice, Nebraska.
• 51-9091 – School for Exceptional Children in Houma, Louisiana.
• 51-9235 – Buffalo Municipal Airport, Buffalo, Minnesota.
• 51-9263 – City Hall of Brooklyn, Ohio.
• 51-9271 – Hill Aerospace Museum, Hill AFB, Utah
• 52-9171 – American Legion Post 87 at the Alexandria Municipal Airport in Alexandria, Minnesota.
• 52-9202 – Lubbock State School, Lubbock, Texas.
• 52-9205 – Franklin, Nebraska
• 52-9223 – Ellington Field Joint Reserve Base, Houston Texas.
• 52-9239 – Torrance Airport in Torrance, California.
• 52-9497 – Air Mobility Command Museum, Dover Air Force Base, Delaware.
• 52-9650 – American Legion Post No. 93 in Pocomoke, Maryland.
• 52-9651 – Fairview Park in Centralia, Illinois.
• 52-9785 – Harrison County Airport, Cadiz, Ohio.
• 52-9797 – Fort Wayne Air National Guard Station, Fort Wayne, Indiana. Formerly at Octave Chanute Aerospace Museum, Rantoul, Illinois.
• 52-9842 – Hector Municipal Airport, Hector, Minnesota.
• 52-9846 – Air Force Flight Test Museum beside the United States Air Force Test Pilot School, Edwards Air Force Base, California.
• 53-4932 – Wood County Regional Airport, Bowling Green, Ohio.
• 53-4938 – Lake Jackson Park, Florala, Alabama. Donated by Eglin AFB.
• 53-5078 – Veterans Memorial in Young’s Park, Dickinson, North Dakota.
• 53-5109 – Tuscaloosa Regional Airport in Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
• 53-5158 – Albert Lea Municipal Airport, Albert Lea, Minnesota.
• 53-5205 – Aerospace Museum of California, McClellan Park (former McClellan AFB) Sacramento, California.
• 53-5215 – Fort Worth Aviation Museum, Fort Worth, Texas.
• 53-5226 – National Air and Space Museum’s Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center in Chantilly, Virginia.
• 53-5421 – modified as a play structure at Oak Meadow Park Los Gatos, California.
• 53-5905 – VFW post 328 in Stoughton; the tail number is erroneously marked “3-0905”
• 53-5947 – Air Force Armament Museum, Eglin Air Force Base, Florida.
• 53-5974 – National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio.
• 53-5979 – Prairie Aviation Museum in Bloomington, Illinois.
• 53-5990 – Maurice Roberts Park in Richmond, Missouri.
• 53-6008 – American Legion Post 27, Apache Junction, Arizona.
• 53-6009 – Johnson City Radio Controllers airfield in Johnson City, Tennessee.
• 53-6021 – Heritage Park, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska.
• 53-6026 – American Legion 80, near the New Richmond Regional Airport, New Richmond, Wisconsin.
• 53-6038 – Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; painted as 0-36038.
• 53-6053 – Tiger Stadium, Louisiana State University Campus, Baton Rouge, Louisiana. This aircraft may no longer be onsite.
• 53-6073 – Kindley Park in Gravette, Arkansas.
• 53-6102 – VFW Post 8562, Maverick County Lake in Eagle Pass, Texas.
• 55-3025 – Minnesota Air National Guard Museum located on the north side of the Minneapolis–Saint Paul International Airport, Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• 56-1710 – Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum, Denver, Colorado.
• 56-1747 – American Airpower Museum, Farmingdale, New York.
• 56-1779 – American Legion Post 71 in Duluth, Minnesota. Displayed as 52-9406.
• 57-0590 – South Dakota Air and Space Museum, Ellsworth AFB, South Dakota.
• 57-0688 – Aviation Cadet Museum, Eureka Springs, Arkansas.
• 58-0509 – Jackson County Airport (Michigan).
• 58-0513 – March Field Air Museum in Riverside, California.
• 58-0542 – JROTC Gen C Powell Hall, Central High School, Highway 67 San Angelo, Texas.
• 58-0548 – Strategic Air & Space Museum, Ashland, Nebraska
• 58-0629 – Castle Air Museum at the former Castle Air Force Base in Atwater, California.
• 58-0651 – Southwest Technical Institute, East Camden, Arkansas.
• 58-0669 – Air Force Flight Test Museum beside the United States Air Force Test Pilot School, Edwards Air Force Base, California.
• 58-2106 – McChord Air Museum, McChord Air Force Base, Washington.

T-33B Shooting Star

• 58-0480 – National Naval Aviation Museum, Pensacola Naval Air Station, Florida.

Uruguay

On display

• Uruguayan Air Force Airbase #2 (St. Bernardina, Durazno)
• Airbase #1 (Carrasco Intl. Airport)
• ETA (Technical Air School)
• Cnel. (Av.) Jaime Meregalli.Museo Aeronáutico (Air Museum)

General Characteristics

• Crew: 2
• Length: 44 ft 6 in (13.56 m)
• Wingspan: 42 ft 5 in (12.93 m)
• Height: 14 ft 11 in (4.55 m)
• Wing area: 232.8 sq ft (21.63 m²)
• Empty weight: 12,708 lb (5,764 kg)
• Gross weight: 18,300 lb (8,301 kg)
• Max takeoff weight: 24,184 lb (10,970 kg)
• Powerplant: 1 × Pratt & Whitney J48-P-5 centrifugal-flow turbojet engine, 6,350 lbf (28.2 kN) thrust dry, 8,750 lbf (38.9 kN) with afterburner

Performance

• Maximum speed: 640 mph (1,030 km/h, 560 kn)
• Maximum speed: Mach 0.84
• Range: 805 mi (1,296 km, 700 nmi)
• Ferry range: 1,275 mi (2,052 km, 1,108 nmi)
• Service ceiling: 51,400 ft (15,700 m)
• Rate of climb: 7,980 ft/min (40.5 m/s)
• Wing loading: 78.6 lb/sq ft (384 kg/m²)
• Thrust/weight: 0.48

Armament

• Rockets: 24 or 48 × 2.75 in (70 mm) Mk 4/Mk 40 Folding-Fin Aerial Rockets

Avionics

• AN/APG-40 radar

Variants

• YF-94 – TF-80Cs converted into YF-94 prototypes, two built.
• F-94A – Initial production version, 109 built.
• YF-94B – One F-94A modified on the production line with new flight director, modified hydraulic systems, and two enlarged wingtip tanks.
• F-94B – Production model based on YF-94B, 355 built.
• YF-94C – F-94Bs modified with Pratt and Whitney J48 engine, leading edge rocket pods, and swept tailplane, originally designated YF-97A, two modified.
• F-94C Starfire – Production version of the YF-94C with longer nose, gun armament replaced with nose mounted rockets, and provision for underfuselage JATO rockets, originally designated F-97A, 387 built.
• EF-94C – Test aircraft for proposed reconnaissance variant
• YF-94D – Prototype single-seat close support fighter version based on the F-94C, one partly built but construction was abandoned when program was cancelled.
• F-94D – Production version of the YF-94D, 112 on order cancelled, none built.
• YF-97A – Original designation of the YF-94C.
• F-97A – Original designation of the F-94C.

On Display

YF-94A

• 48-356 – Air Force Flight Test Museum at Edwards Air Force Base in California. Formerly used as a gate guard at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas, currently in storage on Edwards AFB awaiting restoration and future display.

F-94A

• 49-2498 – National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio. It was transferred from active inventory to the Museum in May 1957.
• 49-2517 – Burlington Air National Guard Base at Burlington International Airport in Burlington, Vermont. Formerly displayed at the Pima Air and Space Museum adjacent to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona.

YF-97C/F-94C

• 50-0877 – stored for future display at Hancock Field Air National Guard Base, Syracuse, New York.
• 50-0980 – National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio. It is displayed as 50-1054.
• 50-1006 – Peterson Air & Space Museum at Peterson Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado.
• 51-5576 – American Legion Post 243 at Bessemer City, North Carolina.
• 51-5605 – North Dakota Air National Guard at Fargo Air National Guard Base, Hector International Airport, Fargo, North Dakota. Was moved from Duluth, Minnesota Memorial Park in October 1996. In Duluth from May 1960 to October 1996 marked as AF Ser. No. 51-3556.
• 51-5623 – Pima Air and Space Museum adjacent to Davis-Monthan Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona
• 51-5671 – Erie County Memorial Gardens cemetery at Erie, Pennsylvania. It was first put on display in 1971 and subsequently left to deteriorate. It was refurbished in 2005.
• 51-13563 – Minnesota Air National Guard Museum at Minneapolis, Minnesota.
• 51-13570 – American Legion Post 247 at the Iron World Discovery Center in Chisholm, Minnesota.
• 51-13575 – Evergreen Aviation & Space Museum in McMinnville, Oregon. It was previously on display at the New England Air Museum in Windsor Locks, Connecticut and moved to Evergreen in 2010.

F-94 Cutaway