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Prowler is among the aviation museum kittens that will available for adoption in December. MUST CREDIT: Alicia Blackburn.
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Bill Falls and the 1950s-era T-33 Shooting Star training jet where he discovered a litter of kittens. MUST CREDIT: Photo by Buford Barnett.
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Hornet and his four littermates were humanely trapped once they were old enough to leave their mother. MUST CREDIT: Alicia Blackburn.
Phantom has lived at the outdoor Hickory Aviation Museum for more than a year. Bill Falls spotted her looking out of a wheel well in the jet where she had her kittens. MUST CREDIT: Photo by Bill Falls.
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Phantom, shown here with one of her kittens, moved her litter to a storage shed near the spot where volunteers leave her food and water. MUST CREDIT: Photo by Bill Falls.
Phantom eluded capture for several days at the museum until she was finally trapped, on Halloween. MUST CREDIT: Photo by Erin Hooks.
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When kittens were spotted playing in the cockpit of a Lockheed T-33 Shooting Star training jet, Hickory Aviation Museum staff and volunteers knew it was time to find them a new home. MUST CREDIT: Photo by Bill Falls.
One of the five kittens born inside a vintage military jet at the Hickory Aviation Museum in Hickory, N.C., decided the view was better from the cockpit.
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