What plane is this?

[Gucci Pilot]

Anyone know what plane this is?

 

[roncachamp]

Anyone know what plane this is?

Missing attachment or link.

 

[FlySince9]

link not working

 

[Gucci Pilot]

Trying to figure it out. Haven't been check out on the image function yet

 

[overdrive148]

P-80 Shooting Star... or T-33, or maybe the F-94?

Original photo:

 

[timrb]

Anyone know what plane this is?

Yes. I do.

Tim

 

[Gucci Pilot]

P-80 Shooting Star... or T-33, or maybe the F-94?

Thanks! I know the pilot was Navy.

 

[Velocity173]

Looks like a two seat. T-33 Shooting Star.

Relative?

 

[Gucci Pilot]

Looks like a two seat. T-33 Shooting Star.

Relative?

Girlfriend's grandfather

 

[kgruber]

Looks to be wearing street shoes.

 

[Velocity173]

Now that I look closer, it appears to be a single seat P-80. Canopy is sliding back.

 

[roncachamp]

Anyone know what plane this is?

Lockheed F-80 Shooting Star

 

[roncachamp]

P-80 Shooting Star... or T-33, or maybe the F-94?

The T-33 and F-94 had clamshell canopies, the F-80 had a sliding canopy. The landing gear doors are pretty distinctive, it's an F-80.

 

[Pilawt]

I know the pilot was Navy.

The markings on the airplane look more like USAF, but it's hard to tell.

Wikipedia says:

To increase land-based jet-transition training in the late 1940s, 50 F-80Cs were transferred to the U.S. Navy from the U.S. Air Force in 1949 as jet trainers. Designated TO-1 by the Navy (changed to TV-1 in 1950), 25 were based at Naval Air Station North Island, California, with VF-52, and 16 assigned to the Marine Corps, equipping VMF-311 at Marine Corps Air Station El Toro. These aircraft were eventually sent to reserve units.

 

[Fearless Tower]

Looks like a two seat. T-33 Shooting Star.

Relative?

No. It's a single seat P-80. It had a sliding canopy like the P-47.

The two seat T-33 canopy lifts up like an F-14.

 

[Velocity173]

Could've had an AF exchange tour???

 

[Fearless Tower]

Could've had an AF exchange tour???

The Navy did have some, apparently. Two were initially purchased for evaluation and failed shipboard testing (nose gear wasn't strong enough to land flat and if they held the nose off, the hook wouldn't catch.

The Navy went on to buy 50 P-80s to use as shore based jet transition trainers like the wiki comment above suggests.

http://www.tailsthroughtime.com/2010/10/how-lockheed-p-80-saved-mcdonnell.html

 

[Fearless Tower]

Looks to be wearing street shoes.

Fairly common back in the 40's.