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Description
| Manufacturer: | Lockheed | |
| Base model: | F-94 | |
| Designation: | F-94 | |
| Version: | C | |
| Nickname: | Starfire | |
| Designation System: | U.S. Air Force | |
| Designation Period: | 1948-Present | |
| Basic role: | Fighter | |
| Crew: | Pilot and radar operator | |
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Specifications
| Length: | 44' 6" | 13.5 m | |
| Height: | 14' 11" | 4.5 m | |
| Wingspan: | 42' 5" | 12.9 m | |
| Wingarea: | 338.0 sq ft | 31.4 sq m | |
| Empty Weight: | 12,700 lb | 5,759 kg | |
| Gross Weight: | 24,200 lb | 10,975 kg | |
Propulsion
| No. of Engines: | 1 | ||
| Powerplant: | Pratt & Whitney J48-P-5A (A/B 8,750Lb/3969Kg) | ||
| Thrust (each): | 6,350 lb | 2,879 kg | |
Performance
| Range: | 805 miles | 1,296 km | |
| Cruise Speed: | 493 mph | 793 km/h | 428 kt |
| Max Speed: | 585 mph | 942 km/h | 509 kt |
| Climb: | 7,980 ft/min | 2,432 m/min | |
| Ceiling: | 51,400 ft | 15,666 m | |
Known serial numbers
Examples of this type may be found at
| Museum | City | State |
| Minnesota Air Guard Museum | Minneapolis | Minnesota |
| New England Air Museum | Windsor Locks | Connecticut |
| Peterson Air & Space Museum | Peterson AFB | Colorado |
| Pima Air & Space Museum | Tucson | Arizona |
| United States Air Force Museum | Wright-Patterson | Ohio |
F-94C on display
New England Air Museum | Peterson Air & Space Museum | Pima Air & Space Museum | United States Air Force Museum |
Recent comments by our visitors
| Marlin L. Call Wynne, AR | I checked out in the F-94C at Moody AFB in the summer of 1954. My RO was Joe Sansolo, from New York City. We really enjoyed the Starfighter, but were then assigned to the 64th FIS at Elmendorf AFB AK and, somewhat disappointingly, the F-89D. UGHHH! Joe and I became lifelong friends. He is still going strong back in NY as Dr. Sansolo, DC, and we correspond and phone regularly.
One hot, moonlit, summer Georgia night, by his skill at interpreting the blips on his back-seat scope, Joe saved my bony ass from destruction (and his not-quite-so-bony ass, as well). We were assigned the NE quadrant of the Moody range at 20,000 to practice intercepts on a T-33. Joe's scope was intermittent, then blank, due to a loose coaxial cable. He fiddled with it for a minute or two and managed to get it working again. In pursuit of the still distant T-33, while we were in a left turn -- belly up to the as yet unseen danger -- he excitedly reported to me a large target, close in, and on a collision course. Joe commanded a hard-as-possible port turn to break it up, and when that didn't happen, a hard-as-possible starboard turn. As we rolled wings level, there, at about thirty degrees starboard, loomed the red light on the left wing tip of a B-29, seemingly not more than a hundred feet away! We were in our assigned area at our assigned altitude, but there it was! The GCI controller must have gone on a coffee break. I hauled back on the stick, and we barely cleared the B-29's fuselage in front of the vertical stabilizer, then zipped under the fuselages of two F-94Cs -- which, as we later learned, were a student crew from the IP School and their Instructor chase plane. Except for Joe's skill, we would have collided at about the left wing root of the B-29. It all happened as if in super slow motion. I can still remember seeing, out of the corner of my eye, the B-29 crew bathed in the red glow of their cockpit floodlights, staring up in fright as we zipped past barely above them. Marlin L. Call, LTC, USAF (Ret.) 08/10/2010 @ 06:16 [ref: 28713] |
| Emerson (EM) Spivey Greensboro, NC | I was a air traffic controller at MOODY AFB from oct 1954- aug 1956. and do i ever remember the F-94C.The loudest after burner i ever heard. dont believe their has ever been another jet that was that loud. One story: while on the mid shift in the Tower(12 to 6) the maint guys would do their run up durning this tiime.On this night maint crew called for taxi to the run up area. when they got prepared . they cut the afterburner on and off about 20 times in succession, or more. That white hot flame was almost a contunial blaze out the back of the A/C.the noise was unbeleaveable. it woke the base commander he was not a happy camper. do any of you pilots remember the "ROSEBUD, LONGBOY DEPARTURES" 07/01/2010 @ 10:07 [ref: 26851] |
| will Jensby Santa Clara, CA | I spent 3 years at Dover AFB as an RO with the 46 FIS, except for 3 months attending the Squadron Officer Course at Maxwell AFB.
When i arrivedin April 1952, most of the pilots were from a Penna. Air Guard squadron. We had F-94B's then, later the C model. We had a squadron reunion about 10 years ago. Will 06/27/2010 @ 16:13 [ref: 26737] |
| Sid Gates Denver, CO | The post below reminded me my first solo in the F-94C. My two most exciting solo's were in the PA-18 in Primary and the F-94C at Moody. There were no dual control trainers so we went to about 10 hours of ground school and then flew the airplane for the first time. We were told to retract the gear and flaps up then hold it on the deck till we hit 475. There was a joke at Moody that you could always tell a student on his first solo because he had a tendency to hold it done low longer than necessary and at 475 you covered a lot of ground.
Another fact I found out in recent years, the F-94C and the Mig 15 had the same basic engine. The British designed it and sold the design to the US and to Russia. The F-94C had an afterburner and produced about 8750 lbs of thrust and the Mig used water/alcohol injection and total thrust was about 1000 lbs less. 05/18/2009 @ 15:13 [ref: 24189] |
| Sid Gates Denver, CO | Steven Nicolay- Today (5/18/09) I saw your post about your father. I think he was in my class at Moody AFB the summer of 1956. I car pooled to the base with "Nick" Nicolay. We left Moody near the end of Sept. and I went to Rome, NY with the 27th FIS. I later heard about the accident. There was a third student who also car pooled with us and right now I can't think of his name. He was from Alabama. My RO (Gary ??) at Moody also went to Dover from Valdosta. I have a very short video taken the day our class at Moody went out to get our first orientation of the F-94C. I am going to check the video and see if "Nick" shows in the film. I don't have any still pictures from Valdosta that I know of. If you want a copy of the video let me know. I can be reached at http://www.gates-sid.com.
Sid Gates 05/18/2009 @ 11:39 [ref: 24187] |
| Boyd Lydick , OR | I first flew the 94-C at Moody in early 1954 as a recent Cadet graduate (54A). We were not allowed to use Afterburner on our first flight and I recall how it just lumbered along the runway, using most of it before lifting off. A/B was allowed on the 2nd flight and wow what a difference! I was airborne and clean by runway end and a few hundred feet in the air. My recall is SL to 45,000ft in 9 min. Spectacular for then. The 1.2 Mach dives were also exciting. I went on to the 64th FIS at Elmendorf, Alaska, flying the F-89D. 03/28/2009 @ 18:02 [ref: 24036] |
| Steven N LaPlace, LA | My father flew and died in a F94C, he was with the 46th FIS out of Dover. He died along with co-pilot in March 1957, they were never found, happened over Lake Huron. If anybody has any pictures of him or the squadron, or any info at all, please e-mail me. His name was 1st.Lt.Henry Charles Nicolay 03/03/2009 @ 09:22 [ref: 23862] |
| Sid Gates Denver, CO | I stumbled onto this site today trying to find out if there is still an F-94C SN: 113555 on display in Mechanicsburg, PA.
I flew this airplane many times while stationed at Rome,NY in 1956-57. Currently I am building a turbine powered model of this airplane and my work can be seen on http://www.gates-sid.com. If anyone knows anything about "555" that was on display at one time in Mechanicsburg, PA. I have downloaded a picture below. 03/02/2009 @ 12:19 [ref: 23855] |
| Geoff Newport, RI |
I see someone from Erie has stopped by the Memorial Gardens and inspected the F-94 parked there. I caught it as I was driving home from Cleveland to Newport RI on I90 but I didnt have a chance to stop. I had over 600 miles ahead of me! Does anyone have the aircraft tail number please? It took me by surprise, and I have never been able to hook up an identity! Many thanks in advance - via this list or to my email! Geoff 11/30/2008 @ 19:42 [ref: 23169] |
| Russell Caauwe Green Valley, AZ | I checked out in the F-94C at Moody AFB, Valdosta Ga in 1953. It was a fun airplane to fly. The afterburner was really robust! It would go supersonic in a dive, which was a unique experience in those days. Midway thru training we were prohibited from supersonic dives because the factory test pilot, Tony Lavier had a duct collapse during one of these dives. The autopilot had problems too because they wouldn't let us even try to turn it on. After Moody, I was assigned to the 82nd FIS in Iceland where we had the F-94B which was a totally different airplane. After Iceland we rotated to Presque Isle Maine where we were outfitted with new F-89Ds. 11/23/2008 @ 15:45 [ref: 23130] |
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