This fighter, the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star, became the first American jet fighter to score a kill.

The original Lockheed facility, during the development of the P-80 Shooting Star, was located adjacent to a malodorous plastics factory.

One day, when the Department of the Navy was trying to reach the Lockheed management for the P-80 project, the call was accidentally transferred to Culver ’ s desk.

In 1947, the designation system was extensively overhauled, with several categories being dispensed with, and others renamed For instance, the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star ( Pursuit ) was redesignated as F-80 ( Fighter ), while the A-26 medium bomber / attack aircraft was redesignated as the B-26, reusing the designation, the Martin B-26 having retired in the meantime.

At the time of its activation, the group's three squadrons ( the 27th, 71st, and 94th Fighter Squadrons ) flew Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star ( after 11 June 1948 F-80 ), America's first operational jet fighter.

By the end of 1945, the US had introduced their next jet fighter, the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star into service and the UK its second fighter design, the de Havilland Vampire

Bong then became a test pilot assigned to Lockheed's Burbank, California plant, where he flew P-80 Shooting Star jet fighters at the Lockheed Air Terminal.

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With the appearance of the Mig-15, the F-86 was rushed into combat and straight-wing jets like the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star and Republic F-84 Thunderjet were soon relegated to ground attack.

* Dorr, Robert F. " Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star, Variant Briefing.

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* 70f Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star ( 1947 )

* 733 Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star – reissued

* January 26 – United States Army Air Forces Colonel William Councill sets a new U. S. transcontinental speed record of 4 hours 13 minutes in a Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star

** The top-scoring American ace of World War II, U. S. Army Air Forces Major Richard I. Bong ( 40 victories ), is killed in the crash of a P-80 Shooting Star fighter at Lockheed Air Terminal in Burbank, California.

* June 19-United States Army Air Forces Colonel Albert Boyd sets a new official world airspeed record of 623. 62 mph ( 1, 003. 81 km / h ) in a Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star.

Lockheed P-80B Shooting Star: Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star Serial Number: 45-8612 Markings: 22nd Fighter Bomber Squadron, 36th Fighter Group, Furstenfeldbruck Air Base, Germany, 1949.

Hoover was Yeager's backup pilot in the Bell X-1 program and flew chase for Yeager in a Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star during the Mach 1 flight.

Aircraft assets available consisted of propeller-driven North American P-51 Mustangs, Republic P-47 Thunderbolts and a handful of the new jet-powered Lockheed P-80 Shooting Stars.

When the Lockheed P-80 entered service, she was issued a brand-new model nicknamed “ Mary ’ s Little Lamb ” in her honor.

At war's end he was evaluating the Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star.

* On 6th August, 1945, the top USAAF fighter ace Richard Bong lost his life in a flight accident as his Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star fighter suffered a flame out and dived to ground.

# Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star

In late 1952, both aircraft were replaced by Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star jet trainers.

The 27th also trained forward air controllers and air liaison officers in Lockheed T-33 Shooting Stars from 1969 to 1976.

In 1947, the United States Air Force tested a Schräge Musik gun installation on a Lockheed F-80A Shooting Star standard " day fighter " aircraft ( s / n 44-85044 ) to study the ability to attack Soviet bombers from below.

* Lockheed F-80C Shooting StarThe Shooting Star was operated extensively in Korea with the F-80C being instrumental in quickly gaining and maintaining air superiority over the Korean battlefield, rapidly clearing the skies of any North Korean aircraft that dared to venture into the air.

Image: F-80d-48-708-80fbs-8fg. jpg | Lockheed F-80C-10-LO Shooting Star 49-8708 of the 8th Fighter-Bomber Group, Korea, 1950

Image: 49fbg-f-80-c-49-689. jpg | Lockheed F-80C-10-LO Shooting Star serial 49-689 of the 49th Fighter-Bomber Group at Taegu AB ( K-9 ) South Korea, 1950

* RF-80 Shooting Star66 production P-80A fighters were converted by Lockheed into reconnaissance aircraft and given the designation RF-80A-15-LO.

Lockheed F-80C-10-LO Shooting Star AF Serial No. 49-689 of the 49th Fighter-Bomber Group at Taegu AB ( K-9 ) South Korea, 1950

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* Lockheed EC-121 Warning Star / PO-2W / WV-2

* College Eye EC-121D, a Lockheed EC-121 Warning Star aircraft

A Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor | F-22 Raptor fires an AIM-120 AMRAAM

File: F-16e block60. jpg | United Arab Emirates F-16 Block 60 taking off after taxiing out of the Lockheed Martin plant in Fort Worth, TX ( NAS Fort Worth JRB )

Two NOAA Lockheed WP-3D Orion | WP-3D Orions.

US Navy Lockheed P-3 Orion | P-3B Orion near Hawaii

An Lockheed L-049 Constellation | L-049 Constellation sporting the livery of Trans World Airlines at the Pima Air & Space Museum.

File: P2V_launch_CVB-42_1951. jpg | A Lockheed P-2 Neptune launches from the aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt ( CV-42 ), 2 July 1951.

Image: C-130K Austria. JPG | Lockheed Martin Hercules C. Mk 1P ' 8T-CB ' of ' Flight Regiment 3 '

Amelia Earhart and Lockheed 10E | Lockheed Electra 10E NR 16020, c. 1937

Amelia Earhart's Lockheed 10E | Lockheed Electra 10E.

Earhart in the Lockheed Model 10 Electra | Electra cockpit, c. 1936

An Lockheed AC-130 | AC-130A Spectre gunship aircraft, 55-011, performs a pylon turn over Range 77 during a training mission in 1984.

Lockheed L-1011 | Lockheed L-1011 TriStar of Alia in the short-lived, experimental early-1980s livery

One of the modified Lockheed X-17 | X-17A missiles launches from the USS Norton Sound ( AVM-1 ) | USS Norton Sound as part of Operation Argus.

Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Model 10 Electra | Lockheed Electra had a prominent RDF loop on the cockpit roof.

Amelia Earhart | Amelia Earhart's Lockheed Model 10 Electra with the circular RDF aerial visible above the cockpit

File: SmithsonianU2leftside. JPG | Lockheed U-2