Warbird Information Exchange

I went home this past weekend ( originally from Grand Rapids, Minnesota )
and I asked my dad about this old looking T-33 that used to be at teh Chisholm Mining Museum up there.

He told me "yeah, I know that one, I took my crane from work ( he worked at Hibbing Taconite Plant as a crane operator ) and took it and put it on a flat bed and then sent it to Duluth to have the ANG guys paint it up and then I put it it up on a pole on a new Veteran Memorial outside of Iron World Mueseum a few years ago.

So I drove up there and found her. She is actually a F-94C "StarFire" Bomber Interceptor

Well, here it is.

Cool pics, I love the cold war space age 50's stuff.

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There's one sitting on a post in the campground at Oshkosh as well.

it's well cared for!!!

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Great looking F-94C Starfire. It's one of my favorite 1950s vintage Air Force jet fighters. I think that the Minnesota ANG was one of the last operators to fly the Starfires, retiring them in July 1959.

F-94's are sweet. There is one in a cemetary near Erie, PA. The one at EAA and this one, look to be kept in pretty good shape.

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Back in the 60s there used to be one at a city park in Duluth , Minn.
I think it's now in the Twin Cities Minn ANG museum. Can anyone confirm that?

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Wow, she looks to be in very nice shape. Great looking paint scheme too.

It is pretty cool your dad was involved with it too.

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Cool...F-94's definitely are funky 50's art.

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Awesome looking bird! Like the paint scheme too. Was it the scheme actually used back in the day?

Regarding:
"There's one sitting on a post in the campground at Oshkosh as well."

I've seen this a/c many times and it's definitely a T-33....
http://www.togo84.com/picturearchives/O ... g_7894.jpg

Great looking Starfire!
What's really nice about it is that it retained it's rocket pods and all it's tanks.
Many F-94's out there are missing the wing mounted rocket pods.
I loved to find a set for the New England Air Museum's F-94C.
Jerry

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Is that the one in Camp Scholler, behind the Barn store? I could have swore it was a 94.
I'll agree, the 94 above is very well taken care of.

Yes it is located here in the Cities.

Here is a list of the F-94s the Locator has in the database...

http://www.aerialvisuals.ca/Locator.php?Type=F-94

...excepting the Chisholm example which will be uploaded tonight.

If anyone knows of any F-94s that don't appear in the list above, please let me know.

Mike

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