P-80 Shooting Star

E623327

The P-80 Shooting Star was the United States’ first operational jet fighter, developed by Lockheed during World War II and widely used by the U.S. Air Force in the early Cold War era.

All labels observed (1)

Label Occurrences
P-80 Shooting Star canonical 2

How this entity was disambiguated

Statements (47)

Predicate Object
instanceOf Lockheed aircraft
jet fighter aircraft
military aircraft
armamentFixed .50 caliber M2 Browning machine guns
armamentFixedCount 6
armamentStores bombs
rockets
configuration single-engine
single-seat
countryOfOrigin United States
crew 1
designer Clarence "Kelly" Johnson
developedBy Lockheed Skunk Works
developedDuring World War II
engineType turbojet
enteredUSAFServiceAs F-80 Shooting Star
era early Cold War
firstFlight 1944-01-08
fuselageType all-metal monoplane
introduced 1945
manufacturer Lockheed
maxSpeed approximately 600 mph
natoReportingName Shooting Star
notableAs first operational jet fighter of the United States
notableEvent one of the first US jets to see combat in Korea
operator Brazil
Chile
Colombia
Italy
Peru
United States
powerplant Allison J33 turbojet
primaryUser United States Air Force
range approximately 1,000 miles
retiredFromUSAFService 1950s
role fighter
fighter-bomber
serviceCeiling approximately 46,000 ft
successor F-80 Shooting Star
tailConfiguration conventional tail
usedBy United States Air Force
United States Army Air Forces
usedInConflict Korean War
variant F-80 Shooting Star
FP-80 reconnaissance version
T-33 Shooting Star
wingConfiguration straight wing

How these facts were elicited

Referenced by (2)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Lockheed Skunk Works notableProduct P-80 Shooting Star
F-94 Starfire basedOn P-80 Shooting Star