I just can't get enough of these wonderful Turkish T-Birds. Glad I was able to catch a few before their retirement in the 1990's. This late-model T-33A, 58-0595, has an interesting serialnumber presentation with '58595'. It also shows the colors of the previous owner, the German Luftwaffe where it flew as 9496 from February 1959 onwards. It was sold to Turkey in January 1977.

Together with the other '1-coded' T-33A's, 595 flew with 1THKIKK, the western command of the THK, at Eskisehir. It was also last noted at Eskisehir in 1995 and unfortunately is scrapped since.