Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star series

This is the start of a very lengthy project to detail the operational histories of the entire series of Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star jet fighters of the 1940s and 50s. This was, in many ways, America's first operational jet fighter, serving in combat in Korea alongside the more familiar F-84. In 1948, those that were still flying were renamed F-80s, but I'll list them under their originial designation here.

There were four distinct production models of the P-80 Shooting Star, with 1,714 built in total...

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P-80A Shooting Star

FP-80A Shooting Star

P-80B Shooting Star

P-80C Shooting Star

For their assistance in various parts of this project, I would like to give thanks to the following individual people...

Joseph F. Baugher for the serial number list
Tjalling Boelman
Ron Picciani
Bruce Darby
Joe Scheil

Thanks!