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P-38 LIGHTNING/42-67638

Lockheed P-38 Lightning
Serial #: 42-67638
Construction #: 2149
Civil Registration:
  None
  Model: P-38J-10-LO Lightning
Name: None
Status: Display
Last info: 2007

History:
Manufactured at Lockheed's Burbank plant, 1943.
Delivered to USAAF as 42-67638.
- BOC: Oct. 23, 1943.
- Assigned to 54th FS/343rd FG/11th AF in the Aleutians, May 1944.
- Crash landed on Buldir Island Alaska, 1944
- Total airframe time: 385 hours.
- Subsequently used as air-to-ground target.
Hill AFB Museum, Roy, UT, 1994-2007.
- Recovered by Air Force Heritage Foundation, UT, August 1994.
- Delivered to Hill AFB Museums after restoration in August 1996.
- Restored to static display condition.
- Displayed as 267638/85.

Source(s):
Chapman, John & Goodall, Geoff, Edited by Paul Coggan - Warbirds Directory,Warbirds Worldwide Ltd., Mansfield, England, 1989.
Goodall, Geoff - Warbirds Directory-4th Edition, 2003.
Joe Baugher's Serial Numbers Page
Photo Source(s):
Tony Andrews.

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