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Published: 2014-07-27 15:17:59 +0000 UTC; Views: 605; Favourites: 19; Downloads: 7
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T-33A-5-LO, 53-5998 assigned to the 127th FIS, 184th FIG, Kansas ANG seen at the Heritage park at McConnell AFB in May 2014.It is possible that the Jayhawk's operated this T-33A from June 1954, when the transitioned to F-80Cs to the 1970s.
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It looks so nice and pretty sitting there, nobody could tell it is just a shell :S
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The Kansas Air Guard has a nice heritage park!
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Some airfields here have a "mascot" plane in the entrance, but VERY few have planes so nicely kept as that one.
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Here is a selection of display acft I have posted on my site f16crewchief.deviantart.com/ga…
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Did you mean that they transferred to the F-4C in the '70s? Anyway it was a great incentive to do a little research on the P-80.
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Air Guard units (as well as some ADAF units) used T-Birds for a variety of missions (adversary target, trainer, and general purpose 'hack') for many years. The T-33 had a much greater longevity than the fighter that sired it. I do not know when the KS ANG relinquished their T-33's, but I know some units used them into the late 1980s f16crewchief.deviantart.com/ar… , f16crewchief.deviantart.com/ar… , f16crewchief.deviantart.com/ar… and f16crewchief.deviantart.com/ar…
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Your original post said they transitioned into the F-80Cs in the '70s. I thought you meant they transitioned into the Phantom in the '70s. The T-Bird did soldier on into the '80s. We had them at Tyndall till after I left there and that was an active duty base!
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No they got the T-33s in the same time frame as the F-80s I am not sure when Kansas retired the type as the T birds were handy little jets
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I misread the original post as they transitioned TO the F-80s in the 1970s from the T-33s. LOL. The F-80s wear all retired from service in this country about 1960.
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I kind of miss these flashier "state pride" paint jobs.
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They were very pretty. There are some nice schemes on F-16s and A-10s in ANG service today...
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