1957 United States Air Force incursion into Albanian airspace

Cold War incident December 2022 June 2023 1957 United States Air Force incursion into Albanian airspace The Cold War Gjirokastra US airplane.jpg 300px The USAF Lockheed T-33 fighter jet at Gjirokastër December 23, 1957 Rinas, Albania 40.0737 20.14013 type:event_region:GR inline Albanian Victory Aircraft seized American pilot arrested but later released Albania 1946 Albania United States Albania 1946 Anastas Ngjela United States/Flag of NATO.svg Howard J. Curran 25px Air Force of the Albanian People's Army 20px United States Air Force 2 MiG-15van Gerven Oei 2015 180 1 Lockheed T-33van Gerven Oei 2015 180 None 1 T-33 captured The 1957 United States Air Force incursion into Albanian airspace (sq Incidentet e para ajrore), was a Cold War air-to-air combat incident.November 24, 2019 Koha kur avionët e Enverit luftonin me botën https://konica.al/2019/11/koha-kur-avionet-e-enverit-luftonin-me-boten/ 2022-12-03 Konica.al en-UShttps://books.google.com/books?id=u1UEAAAAMBAJ&dq=howard+curran+albanian&pg=PT54 A 'Dead' Flier Safe at Home Life September 4, 1970February 13, 2020 "Në vitin 1957, një pilot i NATO-s, me gradën e majorit, uli avionin e tij "T-33" në aeroportin e Rinasit"/ Dëshmia https://memorie.al/ne-vitin-1957-nje-pilot-i-nato-s-me-graden-e-majorit-uli-avionin-e-tij-t-33-ne-aeroportin-e-rinasit-deshmia-e-ish-komandantit-te-aviacionitfotot-e-rra/ 2022-12-03 Memorie.al sq-AL On December 23, 1957, an American T-33 fighter jet violated Albanian airspace.https://books.google.com/books?id=xKk8AQAAIAAJ&q=avioni+amerikan+ne+shqiperi+1957 Spektër 2001 19 Albanian Two MiG-15 aircraft took off from Kuçova Air Base, piloted by Anastas Ngjela and Mahmut Hysa.van Gerven Oei Vincent W. J. Workers Leaving the Studio. Looking Away from Socialist Realism. 2015 Punctum Books 978-0-692-48041-0 945783129zgjohushqiptar.info January 25, 2019 Koha kur avionët e Enverit luftonin me botën, ndersa sot avion shqiptarë …një ëndërr https://www.zgjohushqiptar.info/2019/01/koha-kur-avionet-e-enverit-luftonin-me.html 2022-12-03 Zgjohu Shqiptar sqbionelda 2019-11-24 Koha kur avionët e Enverit luftonin me botën The time when Enver's planes fought the world https://konica.al/2019/11/koha-kur-avionet-e-enverit-luftonin-me-boten/ 2025-10-22 Konica.al sq The American fighter jet was surrounded and forced to land on the unfinished runway at Rinas airport, now known as Tirana International Airport Nënë Tereza.Regnery Alfred S. Unlikely pilgrim : a journey into history and faith 2019 978-0-8253-0800-0 Beaufort Books New York, NY 1082977970Gibler Douglas M. International Conflicts, 1816-2010: Militarized Interstate Dispute Narratives 978-1-4422-7558-4 The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. 2018 Lanham, Maryland 1030585387 The plane was impounded and the American pilot Major Howard J. Curran was arrested.https://books.google.com/books?id=olN5AAzI_ZcC&q=USAF+Jet+forced+down+in+Albania+1957 Keesing's Contemporary Archives Keesing's Limited 1957 University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign 15984 English Curran was released on January 11, 1958, while the plane was placed in the Gjirokastër Fortress museum. The T-33 air incident was just one of at least eight that occurred between Albania and foreign powers from 1948 to the late 1970s.T-33 USA military plane and misleading text exhibited in Albania, 2009 Stephen Hewitt 25 April 2021 https://www.cambridgeclarion.org/27.html 2025-10-22 Cambridge Clarion References 2 Category:1957 in Albania Category:Cold War history of Albania Category:Albania–United States relations Category:Combat incidents Category:Aviation accidents and incidents in 1957 Category:Aviation accidents and incidents in Albania Category:Air-to-air combat operations and battles Category:Battles and conflicts without fatalities Category:History of Tirana County Category:Aviation accidents and incidents involving the Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star