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P-38 LIGHTNING/44-53095
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Serial #: 44-53095
Construction #: 8350
Civil Registration:
  NL67745
  N9005R
   Model(s):
  P-38L Lightning
  P-38M
Name: Putt Putt Maru
Status: Restoration
Last info: 2007
History:
R.A. Wardell & R.W. Martin, Jacksboro, OR, 1946-1947.
- Registered as NL67745.
To FA Hondurena as FAH503 (later FAH506).
- BOC: 1948.
- SOC: 1960.
Bob Bean Aircraft, Blythe, CA., Feb. 2, 1960-1970.
- Registered as N9005R.
- Stored, Blythe, CA.
William Ross, Elk Grove Village, IL, 1969-1986.
- Flown as 453095/Der Gabelshwanz Teufel.
Robert L. Waltrip/Air-SRV, Houston, TX, Nov. 1986-1988.
Lone Star Flight Museum, Houston/Galveston, TX. 1988-2002.
- Damaged in accident, Galveston, TX (repaired), May 4, 1997.
- Flies as Putt Putt Maru/100.
Tom Blair, Kissimee, FL, 2007.
- Undergoing restoration, 2006.
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.
 Photo Source(s):
Eric Dumigan Photography, http://www.airic.ca, 2004
Unknown.
Lee Sloan.
Caz Caswell
Robert N. Abbott Jr.
Research Assistance:
Pat Carry/WIX
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