f94c

Shooting Star anyone ?

This is Lockheed F-94C-1-LO Starfire 50-970 "FA-970" in flight ca. early '50's. (No record of its disposition -- never made it to MASDC.)

This is Lockheed F-94C-1-LO Starfire 51-5607 "FA-607" w/ later pointed radome of the USAF static ca. late '50's. (No record of its disposition -- never made it to MASDC.)

F-94C-1-LO, s/n 50-1059. Assigned to 46th FIS. Disappeared without a trace 16 March 1957. The crew was pilot 1Lt. Henry Charles Nicolay and radar intercept officer 1Lt. Harold A. Lewis. They were part of a four ship flight en route from Bunker Hill AFB, IN to Wurtsmith AFB, MI. As the flight approached their destination 1st. Lt. Nicolay’s F-94C dropped out of formation and did not respond to radio calls from the flight leader. Heavy weather and darkness are thought to be factors in the loss of the F-94C and its crew, who are presumed to have crashed into Lake Huron.