airnutz wrote:
There's a T-33A-1-LO in Texarkana, Texas at Spring Lake Park since 1962 which started out as a playground amusement and later was given it own fenced in area. Documented by Mike Henninger with a photo from 2010 of 51-4025 after a relatively recent spruce-up....
http://www.aerialvisuals.ca/AirframeDos ... rial=67659More recent photos of her a bit weathered and fading, tho she was scheduled for a spruce-up day just before by the local Civil Air Patrol Thanksgiving 2016. The fella is a local DJ who's trying to rediscover the story behind the T-33 coming to Texarkana in 1962.
Seems to have come from Barksdale. I don't have this aircraft's record card pre-55, but here is the rest of its history:
With 3520th CCTW McConnell by 1955
To Aircraft Engineering & Maintenance Company (AEMCO) Oakland CA May 16, 1956 for overhaul
To 3550th CCTW Moody July 25, 1956
To AEMCO Oakland CA April 8, 1957 for overhaul
To 3550th CCTW Moody June 17, 1957
To 3415th TTW Lowry August 3, 1957
To 3550th CCTW Moody September 5, 1957 (became a Flying Training Wg from August 15, 1958)
To Sacramento Air Materiel Area, McClellan May 27, 1959 for overhaul
To 412th Consolidated Logistics Maint Sqn Wurtsmith July 10, 1959 (412th CLM Sqn was the ‘on paper’ organization responsible for 412th FGp T-33s, along with the mission aircraft, which were F-89J up to 1960; and F-101 after that date)
412th Consolidated Logistics Maint Sqn (detachment?) Tyndall November 21 to December 12, 1959
To AEMCO Oakland CA December 22, 1959 for overhaul
To 412th Consolidated Logistics Maint Sqn Wurtsmith January 1960
To 379th Composite Gp Wurtsmith April 1, 1960 (Wurtsmith transferred from ADC to SAC on this date and 379th Bombardment Wg was the Base Host Operating Unit)
4238th Composite Gp Barksdale February 1961 (4238th SW was B-52 unit there)
4238th Strategic Wg Barksdale October 1, 1961
Donated museum/school from Barksdale June 22, 1962