Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star
P-80 / F-80 Shooting Star | |
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P-80A | |
Role | Jet fighter |
National origin | United States |
Manufacturer | Lockheed Corporation |
Designer | Clarence "Kelly" Johnson |
First flight | 8 January 1944 |
Introduction | 1945 |
Status | Retired |
Primary users | United States Air Force United States Navy |
Number built | 1,715 |
Unit cost |
US$110,000 in 1945
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Variants | Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star |
Developed into | Lockheed F-94 Starfire |
The Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star is an American fighter jet. It made a few flyovers of Germany in the last weeks of the World War II. After this war it was used in Korean War. From 1948 its designation was changed to F-80 Shooting Star. The United States Air Force was the main operator, but they were also used by Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Uruguay.
This aircraft was the basis of the famous training aircraft T-33 T-Bird and of the F-94 Starfire fighter jet.