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P-38 LIGHTNING/44-53232



P-38 Lightning
P-38 Lightning


Serial #: 44-53232
Construction #: 8487
Civil Registration:
  NX66678
  Model(s):
  P-38L Lightning
  F-5G Lightning
Name: None
Status: Displayed
Last info: 2005

History:
John Yandell, 1946.
- Registered as NX66678.
- Flew as race #11/Country Boy II.
James L. Bledsoe, Miami, FL, 1947.
- Flew as race #11/City Slicker.
Delivered to FA Hondurus as FAH505
- BOC: 1948.
- SOC: 1960.
Bob Bean Aircraft, Blythe, CA, Mar. 31, 1960-1961.
- Delivered from Honduras to Kelly AFB, TX, 1960.
- Stored, 1960-1961.
USAF Museum, Wright-Patterson AFB, Dayton, OH, May 1961-2005.
- Displayed as P-38J "267855/KI-W".

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.
National Museum Of The USAF
Photo Source(s):
Chuck Gardner

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